{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l01/p026","lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now if, through some special cosmic powers, we could somehow remove the ordinary I from a person—if the ordinary I that has accompanied a person through successive incarnations could be separated from that person's physical, etheric, and astral bodies—and we could then replace the ordinary I with an I that is connected with the spiritual worlds—what would happen? After three years this person's body would fall apart! If such a thing were to happen, world karma would have to do something to prevent the spiritual being connected to the higher worlds from living in this body for more than three years. [During the transition from childhood to the following stages, our organism retains its viability because it can still change during this period. In later life it can no longer change, and therefore cannot survive with the self connected directly to the spiritual worlds.] Only at the conclusion of our earthy lives will we be able to retain the forces within ourselves that allow us to live with that spiritual being for more than three years. Then we will be able to say, *Not I but this higher self in me, which has been there all along, is now at work in me*. Until then, we will not be able to experience this. At most, we will be able to feel the presence of this higher self, but our actual, real human I will not yet be able to bring the higher self fully to life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture One","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p026","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/p026"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p026","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/p026?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":246,"ratio":1.24,"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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Erst am Ende aller Erdenleben wird der Mensch das in sich haben können, was ihn länger als drei Jahre mit jenem Geisteswesen leben läßt. Aber dann wird der Mensch sich auch sagen: Nicht ich, sondern dieses Höhere in mir, das immer da war, das arbeitet jetzt in mir. - Bis dahin kann er das noch nicht sagen, sondern höchstens dies: er fühle dieses Höhere, aber er ist noch nicht mit seinem wirklichen realen Menschheits-Ich dahin gekommen, es in sich zum vollen Leben zu bringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p017"}],"english":["GA 15/l01/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":246,"ratio":1.24,"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. 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