{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 140/1913-05-13/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is exceedingly difficult to speak about life after death in words borrowed from everyday language since the language we know is adapted to life between birth and death and refers to the objects of this world. Therefore, we can usually only indicate what happens between death and a new birth, which is so radically different in nature from anything that can be experienced here. We must imagine that everything we perceive here in the physical world to which we belong cannot be our world after death because we lack the physical-sensory organs. The intellect, which is bound to the brain, also ceases to function after death. We can only tentatively endeavor to give a picture of the life that is so completely different from our existence here on earth. In a certain sense, everyday words can only be used as analogies. Spiritual science, however, also teaches us to relate words to spiritual reality and conveys by means of words an understanding of the super-sensible world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"16. Life After Death","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-05-13","location":null,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/140/1913-05-13/p005","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"René M. Querido","identified_edition":"AP1968","book_title":"Life Between Death and Rebirth","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA140/English/AP1968/19130513p01.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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Auch der Verstand, der an das menschliche Gehirn gebunden ist, hört mit dem Tode auf. Nur gewissermaßen in scheuer Weise können wir uns heranwagen an die Schilderung eines Lebens, das so ganz anders ist als das Leben hier auf Erden, und in gewissem Sinne sind die Worte des gewöhnlichen Lebens nur vergleichsweise zu gebrauchen. Aber die Geisteswissenschaft lehrt uns die Worte auch auf das Spirituelle zu beziehen und nimmt mit den Worten etwas auf, was sich auch ausgießen kann über das Verständnis der übersinnlichen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-05-13/p005"}],"english":["GA 140/1913-05-13/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":205,"en_words":166,"ratio":0.81,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2207,"original_word_count":2277,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"René M. 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