{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p006","lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we may say that from the Indian period on, through the ancient Persian and Egypto-Chaldean cultures, certain beings of the higher hierarchies increasingly withdrew from the direct guidance of humanity. Consequently, by the time of the fourth, Greco-Latin post-Atlantean cultural period, human beings had become, in certain respects, entirely independent. To be sure, the superhuman beings described above still guided human evolution, but they held the reins as loosely as possible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Three","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":72,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p006","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/p006"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p006","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/p006?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p003"},{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 15/l03/p003"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":281,"en_words":261,"ratio":0.93,"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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Daher jene eigentümliche, ganz «menschliche» Kultur in der griechisch-römischen Zeit, in welcher der Mensch völlig auf sich selbst gestellt ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":123,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p003"},{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Alle Eigentümlichkeiten in der Kunst, im staatlichen Leben während der griechischen und römischen Zeit sind darauf zurückzuführen, daß der Mensch sich sozusagen selbst in seiner Eigenart ausleben sollte. Wenn wir also in die ältesten Zeiten der Kulturentwickelung zurückblicken, finden wir führende Wesenheiten, welche ihre Entwickelung bis zum Menschen in früheren planetarischen Zuständen abgeschlossen hatten. Die vierte nachatlantische Kulturepoche war dazu da, den Menschen am allermeisten zu prüfen. Daher war das auch die Zeit, in welcher sich die ganze geistige Führung der Menschheit in einer neuen Art einrichten mußte. Die Menschen der Gegenwart leben in der fünften nachatlantischen Kulturepoche. Die führenden Wesenheiten dieser Epoche gehören derselben Hierarchie an, die bei den alten Ägyptern und Chaldäern herrschend war. In der Tat beginnen dieselben Wesenheiten, welche damals geführt haben, wieder in unserer Zeit ihre Tätigkeiten. Es ist angeführt worden, daß gewisse Wesenheiten während der ägyptisch-chaldäischen Kultur zurückgeblieben sind, und daß man diese in den materialistischen Gefühlen und Empfindungen unserer Zeit findet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p004"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p006","GA 15/l03/p007","GA 15/l03/p008","GA 15/l03/p009"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":281,"en_words":261,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 15/l03/p003"],"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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