{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p004","lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Looking more closely at the guidance of humanity, we realize that it was only in the third cultural epoch—the Egypto-Chaldean—that the angels or lower dhyanic beings became to some extent independent guides of human evolution. This was not the case in the ancient Persian period. The angels then did not yet possess this independence and were subordinate to a higher guidance to a greater degree than they were during the Egyptian period. In ancient Persian times, angels still worked according to the impulses of the hierarchy above them. Thus, although everything was already subject to the angels' guidance, they themselves submitted to the direction of the archangels (archangeloi).","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Three","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","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/l03/p004"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p004","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/l03/p004?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 15/l03/p002"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":241,"en_words":237,"ratio":0.98,"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/l03/p002","passage_number":2,"text":"Man unterscheidet von der Zeit der großen atlantischen Katastrophe ab sieben aufeinanderfolgende Kulturepochen: die erste ist die uralt-indische Kulturperiode, darauf folgt die urpersische,[^1] die dritte ist die ägyptisch-chaldäische, die vierte die griechisch-lateinische und die fünfte ist unsere eigene, die etwa seit der Zeit des zwölften Jahrhunderts sich allmählich herausgebildet hat, und in der wir noch mitten drinnen stehen. Allerdings bereiten sich in unserer Zeit schon die ersten Tatsachen vor, welche zur sechsten nachatlantischen Kulturperiode hinüberführen werden. Denn die einzelnen Entwickelungszeiten greifen übereinander. Auf die sechste Epoche wird dann noch eine siebente folgen. Genauer angesehen, erweist sich nun für die Menschheitsführung das Folgende. Nur für die dritte Kulturperiode, die ägyptisch-chaldäische, waren die Engel (oder niedern dhyanischen Wesenheiten im Sinne der orientalischen Mystik) die in einem gewissen Grade selbständigen Führer der Menschen. Für die urpersische Zeit war es schon nicht so. Da unterstanden die Engel in einem viel höheren Maße als während der ägyptischen Zeit einer höheren Führung und richteten alles so ein, wie es den Impulsen der nächsthöheren Hierarchie entsprach, so daß alles zwar unter der Leitung der Engel stand, aber diese selbst fügten sich wieder der Anordnung der Erzengel oder der Archangeloi. Und in der indischen Kulturperiode, in welcher das nachatlantische Leben eine solche Höhe in geistiger Beziehung hatte, wie nachher vorläufig nicht wieder - eine natürliche Höhe unter der Leitung der großen menschlichen Lehrer -, da unterstanden die Erzengel selber wieder in ähnlichem Sinne der Führung der Archai oder Urbeginne.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p002"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p003","GA 15/l03/p004","GA 15/l03/p005"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":241,"en_words":237,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 15/l03/p002"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7401,"original_word_count":6840,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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