{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p031","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"From the hypothesis of western esotericism we can see the spiritual direction of humanity gradually flowing into what may be in a real, true sense called the guidance which comes from the Christ-impulse. That which is appearing as the new esotericism will flow slowly into the hearts of men, and the spiritual guidance of men and of humanity will ever more and more be consciously seen in such a light. We realize within ourselves how at first the Christ-principle flowed into the hearts of men because the Christ had gone about Palestine in the physical body of Jesus of Nazareth. Because men by that time were gradually surrendering themselves to reliance on the world of sense, they could receive the impulse which corresponded to their perception. Afterwards that same impulse so worked through the inspiration of the new esotericism that such spirits as Nicholas of Cusa, Copernicus, and Galileo were inspired, and Copernicus, for instance, was enabled to make this assertion: “That which is evident to the senses cannot teach the truth about solar systems; if we want to find the truth we must investigate behind sense appearances” At that time men, even spirits like Giordano Bruno, were not yet ripe enough to join consciously to the new esoteric stream. The spirit of the movement had to work in them unconsciously. Yet powerful and magnificent was the announcement of Giordano Bruno: “When a human being enters into existence by means of birth, then it is something macrocosmic that concentrates itself as a monad; and when a human being passes through death the monad spreads itself out again; that which was enclosed within the body spreads itself out in the cosmos in order to draw itself together again in other stages of existence, and again to spread itself out.” There Bruno gave expression to mighty conceptions which, even if expressed in stammering tongue, were in entire accord with the sense of the new esotericism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p031?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/p031"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p031","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/p031?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p038","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p038"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":323,"ratio":1.12,"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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Da haben die Menschen, die sich allmählich ganz dem Vertrauen in die sinnliche Welt ergeben hatten, den Impuls empfangen können, der ihrer Auffassung entsprach. Dann hat derselbe Impuls durch die Inspiration der neueren Esoterik so gewirkt, daß inspiriert werden konnten Geister wie Nikolaus Cusanus, Kopernikus, Galilei, so daß zum Beispiel Kopernikus den Satz geltend machen konnte: Der Sinnenschein kann nicht die Wahrheit über die Sonnensysteme lehren; will man die Wahrheit finden, so muß man hinter dem Sinnenschein forschen. - Damals waren die Menschen noch nicht reif, selbst Geister wie Giordano Bruno nicht, sich der neueren esoterischen Strömung bewußt einzugliedern; sie mußten unbewußt in sich wirksam haben den Geist dieser Strömung. Giordano Bruno verkündete großartig und gewaltig: Wenn ein Mensch durch die Geburt ins Dasein tritt, so ist es ein Makrokosmisches, das sich konzentriert als eine Monade, und wenn ein Mensch durch den Tod geht, so dehnt sich die Monade wieder aus; was im Körper zusammengeschlossen war, dehnt sich im Weltall aus, um sich in anderen Daseinsstufen wieder zusammenzuziehen und wieder auszudehnen. Damals sprachen aus Bruno gewaltige Begriffe, die ganz und gar im Sinne der neueren Esoterik, wenn auch wie ein Stammeln, sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p038"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":323,"ratio":1.12,"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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