{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l01/p020","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"Now those forces which prevent man from being able to endure the powers working upon him during early childhood come out of the substance of the earth. When these have fallen away from a human being, the latter, if he has attained the aim of his life, must have advanced far enough to be able actually to give himself up, with his whole being, to the powers which at present are only active in man during childhood. Thus the object of evolution through successive earthly lives is gradually to make the whole individual, including therefore the conscious part, into an expression of the powers which are ruling in him under the influence of the spiritual world—though he does not know it—during the first years of his life. The thought which takes possession of the soul after such reflections as these, must fill it with humility, but also with a due consciousness of the dignity of man. The thought is this man is not alone; there is something living within him which is constantly affording him proof that he can rise above himself to something which is already growing beyond him, and which will go on growing from one life to another. This thought can assume more and more definite form; and in that case it affords something supremely soothing and elevating, at the same time filling the soul with corresponding humility and modesty. What is it that man has within him in this way? Surely a higher, divine human being, by whom he is able to feel himself interpenetrated, saying to himself, ‘He is my guide within me.’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p020?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/p020"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p020","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/p020?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":238,"en_words":268,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Der Gedanke, der aus solchen Betrachtungen heraus sich der Seele bemächtigt, muß mit Demut, aber auch mit richtigem Bewußtsein der Menschenwürde erfüllen. Es ist der Gedanke: Der Mensch ist nicht allein; in ihm lebt etwas, was ihm immerdar den Beweis liefern kann: Es kann der Mensch sich über sich selbst erheben, zu etwas, was gegenwärtig schon über ihn hinauswächst und was wachsen wird von Leben zu Leben. Immer bestimmtere und bestimmtere Gestalt kann dieser Gedanke annehmen; er liefert dann etwas ungeheuer Beruhigendes und Erhebendes; aber durchdringt auch die Seele mit entsprechender Demut und Bescheidenheit. - Was hat in diesem Sinne der Mensch in sich? Wahrhaftig einen höheren, einen göttlichen Menschen, von dem er sich lebendig durchdrungen fühlen kann, sich sagend: Er ist mein Führer in mir.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p014"}],"english":["GA 15/l01/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":238,"en_words":268,"ratio":1.13,"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. 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