{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l01/p019","lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What we bring with us at birth contains something that is better than anything we can make of it in later life. In early childhood, the luciferic and ahrimanic forces have only a limited influence on our being. Essentially, they are active only in what we make of ourselves through our conscious life. If we retained the best part of ourselves in its full force beyond the first phase of childhood, its influence would be too much for us because the luciferic and ahrimanic forces opposing the part of ourselves that is better than the rest would weaken our whole being. Our constitution as human beings in the physical world is such that, once we are no longer soft and malleable as children, we can no longer stand to have the forces of the spiritual world continue to affect us directly. The forces that underlie our orientation in space and the formation of the larynx and the brain would shatter us if they continued to influence us directly in later life. These forces are so powerful that our organism would waste away beneath their holiness if they continued to work on us. However, for the activity that brings us into conscious contact with the supersensible world, we have to call upon these forces again.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture One","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":214,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p019","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/p019"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p019","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/p019?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":214,"ratio":1.1,"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/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":195,"en_words":214,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6215,"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."}}