{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 133/1912-05-14/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A second power which releases the human being from the ordinary world, leading him at once away from material perception into super-sensible insight, is Compassion, Fellow-feeling (Of this, too, I have spoken). Those who go heedlessly through the world do not regard compassion as having any great mystery about it; but to the thoughtful, compassion is a great and mysterious secret. When we look at a being only from outside, impressions come from him to our senses and intellect; with the awakening of compassion we pass beyond the sphere of these impressions. We share in what is taking place in his innermost nature, and transcending the sphere of our own “I”, we pass over into *his* world. In other words: we are set free from ourselves, we break through the barriers of ordinary existence in the physical body and reach over into the other being. Here, already, is the Supersensible—for neither the operations of the senses nor of the reasoning mind can carry us into the sphere of another's soul. The fact that compassion exists in the world bears witness that even in the world of sense we can be set free from, can pass out beyond ourselves and enter into the world of another being. If a man is incapable of compassion, there is a moral defect, a moral lack in him. If at the moment when he should get free from himself and pass over into the other being, feeling, not his own pain or joy but the pain or joy of that other—if at that moment his feelings fade and die away, then something is lacking in his moral life. The human being on Earth, if he is to reach the stature of full and complete manhood, must be able to pass out beyond his own earthly life, he must be able to live in another, not only in himself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. The Mission of the Earth. Wonder, Compassion and Conscience. The Christ Impulse.","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-05-14","location":null,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/133/1912-05-14/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Wenn wir aber Mitgefühl entwickeln, treten wir über die Sphäre der Eindrücke, die das Wesen auf uns macht, hinüber; dann leben wir mit, was in dem geheimsten Allerheiligsten in den Wesen vorgeht, leben uns hinüber von unserer Ich-Sphäre in die Sphäre des andern Wesens. Das heißt, wir kommen von uns los, wir gehen von dem, daß wir für gewöhnlich im physischen Leibe eingeschlossen sind, hinweg und kommen in das hinüber, was das andere Wesen in sich schließt und was in dieser Welt schon ein Übersinnliches ist, denn wir können nicht mit unseren Sinnen oder unserem Verstande in die Seelensphäre des andern Wesens hinüberkommen. Mitgefühl, daß es da ist in der Welt, ist ein Beweis dafür, daß wir schon innerhalb der Sinneswelt von uns loskommen, aus uns heraustreten und in andere Wesen hinübergehen können. Wir wissen, daß es ein sittlicher Defekt, ein sittlicher Mangel des Menschen ist, wenn er nicht Mitgefühl entwickeln kann. Wenn er sozusagen in dem Augenblick, wo er von sich loskommen sollte und in das andere Wesen hinübertreten sollte, um nicht seinen Schmerz, seine Freude, sondern den Schmerz und die Freude des andern Wesens mitzuerleben, wenn er in dem Moment zu fühlen aufhört, gleichsam ohnmächtig wird, dann ist das ein sittlicher Mangel. Der vollständige Erdenmensch muß durch das Mitgefühl mit andern Wesen über sein Erdenleben hinaustreten können, muß mitleben können, was nicht er ist, sondern was ein anderes Wesen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":330,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/133/1912-05-14/p011"}],"english":["GA 133/1912-05-14/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":330,"en_words":313,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.93,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5858,"original_word_count":6283,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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