{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 139/1912-09-21/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us now think of a soul which is rooted in the West, prepared for the mission of the West, and yet bears within itself the powerful echo of ancient clairvoyance. In India these echoes have long since died away, but they are still present in the West. The soul has the impulse to enter the elemental world, but it is prevented by its consciousness. A mood such as that of the Buddha could not arise in such souls. The Buddha mood would have said, “We are brought into the world of suffering. Let us free ourselves from it.” But Western souls wanted to take hold of what was ahead of them. They could not go back into what lay behind them. But in the world in front of them they could find only cold, icy concepts. Consider such a soul as Pherecydes of Syros who was the last to be able to see into the elemental world. Now let us think of one of the other souls who cannot see how the elements are born in a living way out of Chronos. It is unable to see how Ophioneus, the serpent-being, enters into conflict with the higher gods, but it is able to glimpse that something is at work in the physical material world. It cannot see through to Chronos, but it sees the imprint of Chronos in the world of sense, in fire, water, air and earth. It is not able to see how the higher gods are opposed by the lower gods, and how Lucifer, the serpent-god, rebels; but it does see how harmony and disharmony, friendship and enmity prevail. It sees love and hate as abstract concepts, and fire, water, air, and earth as abstract elements. The soul beholds all that still at that time penetrated into it, but what had been seen earlier by contemporaries is now hidden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Christ's Inner Monologue and the Mystery of Golgotha","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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In das, was hinter ihnen war, konnten sie nicht hinein; in der Welt vor ihnen hatten sie nur die kalten, eisigen Begriffe. Denken wir uns eine solche Seele wie den Pherekydes von Syros. Er ist der, welcher als der letzte hineinschauen konnte in das, was da drinnen ist in der elementarischen Welt. Denken wir uns eine der anderen Seelen aber. Sie kann nicht sehen, wie die Elemente lebendig geboren werden aus dem Chronos heraus.Sie kann nicht sehen, daß das Schlangenwesen Ophioneus den Streit beginnt mit den oberen Göttern; aber im Bilde hält sie fest, daß da etwas hereinwirkt in das Sinnliche. Sie sieht nicht hindurch auf Chronos; aber das sieht sie, was als Abdruck in der Sinneswelt aus Chronos hervorgeht: Feuer, Wasser, Luft und Erde. Sie sieht nicht, wie die oberen Götter von den unteren bekämpft werden, wie sich der Schlangengott Luzifer empört; aber sie sieht, wie Disharmonie und Harmonie, Freundschaft und Feindschaft walten. Liebe und Haß sieht sie als abstrakte Begriffe, Feuer, Wasser, Luft und Erde als abstrakte Elemente. Was jetzt noch in die Seele hereindringt, das sieht sie; aber was früher von den Zeitgenossen gesehen worden war, das ist zugedeckt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":296,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/139/1912-09-21/p029"}],"english":["GA 139/1912-09-21/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":296,"en_words":313,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.13,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7419,"original_word_count":6585,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Conrad Mainzer","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"The Gospel of St. Mark","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA139/English/AP1986/19120921p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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