{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l01/p029","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"It is just as if the Christ had said; ‘I will be such an ideal for you human beings that, when it is raised to a spiritual level, you will be shown that which is fulfilled in each human body.’ In his early childhood man learns from the spirit how to walk; he is shown by the spirit his way through earthly life. From the spirit he learns to speak, to form *truth*; in other words, be develops the essence of truth out of sound during the first three years of his life. And the *life* too, which man lives on earth as an ego-being, obtains its vital organ through what is formed in the first three years of childhood. Thus man learns to walk, to find ‘the way’; he learns to present ‘truth’ through his physical organism; and he learns to bring ‘life’ from the spirit into expression in his body. No more significant interpretation seems possible of the words ‘Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ And momentous is that saying in which the ego-being of the Christ comes into expression thus, ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.’ Just as, unknown to a child, the higher spirit-forces are fashioning its organism to become the bodily expression of the way, the truth, and the life, so the spirit of man, through being interpenetrated with the Christ, gradually becomes the *conscious* vehicle of the way, the truth, and the life. He is thereby making himself, in the course of his earthly development, into that force which bears sway within him as a child, when he is not consciously its vehicle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p029?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/p029"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p029","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/p029?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":279,"en_words":280,"ratio":1.0,"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/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Man könnte denken, der Christus habe gesagt: Ich will für euch Menschen ein solches Ideal sein, das in den Geist erhoben euch dasjenige darstellt, was sonst im Leiblichen erfüllt ist. In den ersten Lebensjahren lernt der Mensch physisch gehen aus dem Geiste heraus; das heißt der Mensch weist sich seinen Weg für das Erdenleben aus dem Geiste heraus. Er lernt sprechen, das heißt die Wahrheit prägen aus dem Geiste heraus, - oder mit anderen Worten: Der Mensch entwickelt das Wesen der Wahrheit aus dem Laute heraus in den ersten drei Jahren seines Lebens. Und auch das Leben, das der Mensch auf der Erde als Ich-Wesen lebt, das bekommt sein Lebensorgan durch das, was sich in den ersten drei Jahren der Kindheit ausbildet. So also lernt der Mensch leiblich gehen, das heißt «den Weg» finden, er lernt die «Wahrheit» durch seinen Organismus darstellen, und er lernt das «Leben» aus dem Geiste heraus im Leibe zum Ausdrucke bringen. Keine bedeutungsvollere Umprägung des Wortes: «Wenn ihr nicht werdet wie die Kindlein, könnt ihr nicht in die Reiche der Himmel kommen» scheint denkbar. Und als ein bedeutsames Wort muß es gelten, daß die Ich-Wesenheit des Christus so zum Ausdrucke kommt: «Ich bin der Weg, die Wahrheit und das Leben!» Wie die höheren Geisteskräfte den Kindheitsorganismus - diesem unbewußt - so gestalten, daß er leiblich wird der Ausdruck für den Weg, die Wahrheit und das Leben, so wird der Menschengeist allmählich dadurch, daß er sich mit dem Christus durchdringt, bewußt der Träger des Weges, der Wahrheit und des Lebens. Er macht sich dadurch selbst im Laufe des Erdenwerdens zu jener Kraft, die im Kindheitsalter in ihm waltet, ohne daß er der bewußte Träger ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p024"}],"english":["GA 15/l01/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":279,"en_words":280,"ratio":1.0,"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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