{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l01/p044","lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"According to Plato, Socrates felt something like this when he spoke of his *daemon* as something that guided and directed him.[^5] Many attempts have been made to explain Socrates' *daemon*. However, to explain it we must accept the idea that Socrates could feel something akin to what emerges from the above considerations. Based on this, we then realize that during the three or four centuries when the Socratic principle prevailed in Greece, Socrates introduced a mood into the Greek world that served as preparation for another great event. The mood I am referring to accompanied the realization that what we perceive of an individual does not comprise the whole of what enters this world from the higher one. This mood continued to prevail long after Socrates' death. The best people who had this feeling later also best understood the words “Not I, but the Christ in me.” They realized that Socrates had to speak of a *daemon-like* force working out of the higher worlds, but through the ideal of Christ it became clear what Socrates had really meant. Of course, Socrates could not yet speak of Christ because in his time people could not yet find the Christ-being *within*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture One","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p044","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1992","ASGB1921"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p044","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p032"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":277,"en_words":279,"ratio":1.01,"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/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Einem solchen Menschen wird der Gedanke nahetreten: Als ich Kind war, habe ich an mir durch Kräfte gearbeitet, die aus der geistigen Welt hereinwirkten, und das, was ich jetzt als mein Bestes geben kann, muß auch aus höheren Welten hereinwirken; ich darf es nicht als meinem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein angehörig betrachten. Ja, ein solcher Mensch darf sagen: etwas Dämonisches, etwas wie ein Dämon - aber das Wort «Dämon» im Sinne einer guten geistigen Macht genommen - wirkt aus einer geistigen Welt durch mich auf die Bekenner. - So etwas empfand Sokrates, von dem Plato erzählt, daß er von seinem «Dämon» sprach als von dem, was ihn lenkte und leitete. Viel hat man versucht, um diesen «Dämon» des Sokrates zu erklären. Aber man kann ihn nur erklären, wenn man sich dem Gedanken hingeben will, daß Sokrates so etwas empfinden konnte, wie aus obiger Betrachtung sich ergibt. Dann kann man auch begreifen, daß durch die drei bis vier Jahrhunderte, da das sokratische Prinzip in Griechenland gewirkt hat, eine Stimmung durch Sokrates in die griechische Welt kam, die vorbereitend wirken konnte für ein anderes großes Ereignis. Die Stimmung, daß der Mensch nicht so, wie er dasteht, dasjenige ganz ist, was aus höheren Welten hereinragt, diese Stimmung wirkte weiter. Die Besten, bei denen diese Stimmung vorhanden war, sind die gewesen, welche später auch am besten das Wort verstanden: «Nicht ich, sondern der Christus in mir! » Denn sie konnten sich sagen: Sokrates hat noch wie von einem dämonisch aus höheren Welten Wirkenden gesprochen; durch das Christus-Ideal wird klar, wovon Sokrates gesprochen hat. Nur konnte Sokrates noch nicht von Christus sprechen, weil zu seiner Zeit noch niemand die Christus-Wesenheit in sich finden konnte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p032"}],"english":["GA 15/l01/p043","GA 15/l01/p044"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":277,"en_words":279,"ratio":1.01,"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. 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