{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-05-28/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Western world's first acquaintance with this poem came in an age in which there was little understanding for the original clairvoyant sources from which it sprang. Nevertheless, this lofty song of the Divine struck like a wonderful flash of lightning into the Western world, so that a man of Central Europe, when he first became acquainted with this Eastern song, said that he must frankly consider himself happy to have lived in a time when he could become acquainted with the wondrous things expressed in it. This man was not one who was unacquainted with the spiritual life of humanity through the centuries, indeed through thousands of years. He was one who looked deeply into spiritual life—Wilhelm von Humboldt, the brother of the celebrated astronomer. Other members of Western civilization, men of widely different tongues, have felt the same. What a wonderful feeling it produces in us when we let this *Bhagavad Gita* work upon us, even in its opening verses!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Ancient Clairvoyance and the Birth of Individual Ego","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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Und dieser Mann war nicht einer, der unbekannt war mit dem Geistesleben der Menschheit in den Jahrhunderten, ja Jahrtausenden; dieser Mann war einer, der tief hineingeschaut hat in das Geistesleben der Völker: es war Wilhelm von Humboldt, der Bruder des berühmten Kosmos-Schreibers Humboldt. Auch andere Angehörige des Abendlandes, Menschen der verschiedensten Sprachgebiete, sie alle haben ähnlich empfunden. Wie bedeutsam aber wirkt doch dieses Empfinden, wenn man - es sei dieses einmal von dieser Seite her erwähnt — die Bhagavad Gita zunächst in ihren ersten Gesängen auf sich wirken läßt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-28/p006"}],"english":["GA 146/1913-05-28/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":191,"en_words":162,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.93,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4999,"original_word_count":5398,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams and Mary Adams","identified_edition":"AP1968","book_title":"The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA146/English/AP1968/19130528p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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