{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l01/p017","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"Man brings with him at birth something which he cannot improve upon later in life. This is so, because the Luciferic and Ahrimanic forces have little influence over man during early childhood; they are virtually operative only in what man makes out of himself by his conscious life. If he were to retain in full force beyond early childhood that more perfect part of his being, he would be unable to endure its influence, because his whole being is weakened by the opposing forces of Lucifer and Ahriman. Man's organism in the physical world is so constituted that it is only as a soft and pliable child that he can endure within him those direct forces of the spiritual world. He would be shattered, if during his later life there were still directly working in him those forces which underlie the faculty of equilibrium in space, and the formation of the larynx and the brain. Those forces are so tremendous that, if they were to continue working, our organism would pine away under the influence of their holiness. Man must only have recourse to such forces for the purpose of developing the power to make conscious connection with the supersensible world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p017?edition=ASGB1921","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1992","ASGB1921"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p017"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p017","paragraph_aligned":true},{"lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p017?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":195,"en_words":201,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Die luziferischen und die ahrimanischen Kräfte haben in den ersten Kindheitsjahren nur geringen Einfluß auf das Menschenwesen; sie sind im wesentlichen in all dem nur wirksam, was der Mensch durch sein bewußtes Leben aus sich macht. Würde er länger als in den ersten Kindheitstagen denjenigen Teil seines Wesens, der besser ist als sein anderer, in voller Kraft in sich haben, so würde er der Wirkung desselben nicht gewachsen sein, weil die entgegenstrebenden luziferischen und ahrimanischen Kräfte seine Gesamtwesenheit schwächen. Es hat der Mensch in der physischen Welt eine solche Organisation, daß er die unmittelbaren Kräfte der geistigen Welt, welche in den ersten Kindheitsjahren an ihm wirksam sind, nur so lange an sich ertragen kann, als er gleichsam kindlich weich und bildsam ist. Er würde zerbrechen, wenn jene Kräfte, die der Orientierung im Raume, der Formung des Kehlkopfes und des Gehirns zugrunde liegen, auch im späteren Lebensalter noch in unmittelbarer Art wirksam blieben. Diese Kräfte sind so gewaltig, daß, wenn sie später noch wirken würden, unser Organismus hinsiechen müßte unter der Heiligkeit dieser Kräfte. Nur zu derjenigen Betätigung muß sich der Mensch an diese Kräfte wenden, welche ihn mit der übersinnlichen Welt in bewußten Zusammenhang bringt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p011"}],"english":["GA 15/l01/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":195,"en_words":201,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6442,"original_word_count":6235,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 15/l01/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}