{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p011","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"Now spiritual science must recognize in Christ not merely an earthly but also a *cosmic* Being. In a certain sense man is, taken as a whole, a cosmic being. He lives a twofold life—one in a physical body from birth to death, another in the spiritual worlds between death and a new birth. When he is incarnated in a physical body, he is living in dependence on the earth, because the physical body is restricted by the forces and conditions of existence belonging to the earth. The human being, however, does not only take the substances and forces of the earth into himself, but is joined to the whole of the earth's organism. When he has passed through the gate of death, he no longer belongs to the forces of the earth; but it would be incorrect to imagine that he belongs to no forces at all, for he is then connected with the forces of the solar system and the more distant star-systems. In this way, between death and a new birth, he lives in the domain of the cosmic, just as in the period between birth and death he lived in the domain of the earthly. From death to a new birth he belongs to the cosmos, as on the earth he belongs to the elements—Air, Water, and Earth. Accordingly, while he is passing through a life between death and a new birth, he comes into the region of cosmic influences. For the planets send forth not merely the physical forces of what astronomy teaches, such as gravitation and others, but also spiritual forces. With these spiritual powers of the cosmos man is connected, each person in a special manner according to his own individuality. If he is born in Europe, he lives in a different relation to warmth conditions, and so forth, than if he had been born, let us *say*, in Australia. Similarly, during his life between death and a new birth, one person may stand more closely related to the spiritual powers of Mars, another to those of Jupiter, others again to those of the whole planetary system in general, and so on. It is also these forces which bring man back again to the earth. Thus before he is born he is living in connection with the collective whole of stellar space.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":388,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p011?edition=ASGB1921","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/p011"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p011","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/p011?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":370,"en_words":388,"ratio":1.05,"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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Wenn er durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist, dann gehört er nicht den Kräften der Erde an; aber es wäre unrichtig, sich vorzustellen, daß er dann keinerlei Kräften angehörte, sondern er ist dann verbunden mit den Kräften des Sonnensystems und der weiteren Sternensysteme. Er lebt zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt ebenso im Kosmischen, wie er in der Zeit von der Geburt bis zum Tode im Bereich des Irdischen lebt. Er gehört vom Tode bis zur neuen Geburt dem Kosmos an, wie er auf der Erde angehört den Elementen Luft, Wasser, Erde und so weiter. Indem er das Leben durchlebt zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt, kommt er in den Bereich der kosmischen Einwirkungen. Von den Planeten kommen nicht etwa bloß die physischen Kräfte, welche die physische Astronomie lehrt, die Schwerkraft und die anderen physischen Kräfte, sondern auch geistige Kräfte. Und mit diesen geistigen Kräften des Kosmos steht der Mensch in Verbindung; und zwar jeder Mensch in einer besonderen Weise, je nach seiner Individualität. Er lebt, wenn er in Europa geboren ist, mit den Wärmeverhältnissen und so weiter in einem anderen Zusammenhange, als wenn er zum Beispiel in Australien geboren wäre. Ebenso steht er im Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt in Beziehung: der eine mehr zu den geistigen Kräften des Mars, der andere mehr zu denen des Jupiter, mancher mehr zu jenen des ganzen Planetensystems überhaupt und so weiter. Und diese Kräfte sind es auch, die den Menschen wieder auf die Erde zurückführen. So lebt er die Zeit vor einer Geburt mit dem gesamten Sternenraum in Verbindung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":370,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p013"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":370,"en_words":388,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7626,"original_word_count":6840,"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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