{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 147/1913-08-25/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In order that the right relationship should come about at her “Awakening,” Maria had to be presented, at the moment when the spiritual world was to rush in on her with such vehemence, as a person who could well appear absurd to someone like one of our fine young theater critics. A dainty little modern critic might well say: “After finishing the Egyptian scene, there sat Maria as if she had just had breakfast, experiencing these things without a bit of lively drama.” And yet anything else would be untrue at this stage of her development. Only Maria's quiet calmness can represent the truth of her development, as the rays of spiritual light fall upon the scene. We see from this how much depends on the soul mood, mastering within itself all the emotions and passions that are significant only for the physical sense world, if the soul is to cross the threshold of the spiritual world in the right way; otherwise it will experience there the necessary consequence of what remains of sensual feeling. Ahriman is the more spiritual being; what he carries out in the way of unlawful activity, of the unlawful activity he can create, flows more or less into the general world of the senses. 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Wahr ist allein jene Gelassenheit auf dieser Entwickelungsstufe, da die Strahlen, das Licht des Geistigen hereinfallen. So sehen wir, daß es von der Seelenstimmung abhängt, die in sich fertig sein muß mit all den Affekten und Leidenschaften, die nur für die physisch-sinnliche Welt Bedeutung haben, wenn die Seele über die Schwelle der geistigen Welt in der richtigen Weise treten soll und nicht in der geistigen Welt die notwendige Konsequenz der gebliebenen sinnlichen Empfindungsweise erleben will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/147/1913-08-25/p021"},{"locus":"GA 147/1913-08-25/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Ahriman ist ein mehr geistiges Wesen; was er an unrechtmäßiger Tätigkeit, an unrechtmäßiger Schöpfertätigkeit entwickelt, fließt sozusagen in die allgemeine Sinneswelt hinein. Luzifer ist ein mehr seelisches Wesen; was er an fühlsamen Seelenelementen herausziehen will aus der Sinneswelt, will er einverleiben seinem besonderen luziferischen Reich, in welchem er jedem Menschen — gemäß dem den Wesen eingepflanzten Egoismus — sozusagen die größte Möglichkeit willkürlicher Unabhängigkeit sichern will. Man sieht daraus eben, daß es sich bei der Beurteilung von solchen Wesenheiten, wie Ahriman und Luzifer, nicht darum handeln kann, sie einfach als gut oder böse zu bezeichnen, sondern darum, aufzufassen, welches die rechtmäßige Tätigkeit, das eigentliche Reich dieser Wesenheiten ist, und wo ihre unrechtmäßige Tätigkeit, wo die Überschreitung ihrer Grenze beginnt. Denn dadurch, daß sie ihre Grenze überschreiten, verlocken sie den Menschen zum unrechtmäßigen Überschreiten der Grenze in die andere Welt hinein mit den Fähigkeiten und Gesetzen der einen Welt. Von dem Erlebten beim Herüber- und Hinübergehen über die Grenze zwischen der physisch-sinnlichen und der übersinnlichen Welt handeln insbesondere die Bilder von «Der Seelen Erwachen». Heute wollte ich den Anfang machen, indem ich einiges von dem schilderte, was beachtet werden muß an dem Grenzgebiet zwischen der sinnlichen und übersinnlichen Welt. Morgen wollen wir dann mit dieser Betrachtung weiterfahren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":206,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/147/1913-08-25/p022"}],"english":["GA 147/1913-08-25/p031","GA 147/1913-08-25/p032"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":383,"en_words":416,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 147/1913-08-25/p021","GA 147/1913-08-25/p022"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6343,"original_word_count":6213,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Ruth Pusch","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Secrets of the Threshold","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA147/English/AP1987/19130825p01.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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