{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 151/1914-01-20/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In truth, thought is most completely our possession. If we can find the relation of thought to the Cosmos, to the Universe, we shall find the relation to the Cosmos of what is most completely ours. This can assure us that we have here a fruitful standpoint from which to observe the relation of man to the universe. We will therefore embark on this course; it will lead us to significant heights of anthroposophical observation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Thought as Gateway to Cosmic Understanding","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Finden wir die Beziehung des Gedankens zum Kosmos, zum Weltall, dann finden wir die Beziehung unseres Ureigensten zum Kosmos, zum Weltall. Das kann uns versprechen, daß es wirklich ein fruchtbarer Gesichtspunkt ist, einmal die Beziehung des Menschen zum Weltall vom Gedanken aus zu betrachten. Wir werden also diese Betrachtung anstellen, und sie wird uns in bedeutsame Höhen anthroposophischer Betrachtung führen. Aber wir werden heute einen Unterbau aufzurichten haben, der vielleicht manchem von Ihnen etwas abstrakt vorkommen mag. Aber in den nächsten Tagen werden wir sehen, daß wir diesen Unterbau brauchen und daß wir ohne ihn uns nur mit einer gewissen Oberflächlichkeit den hohen Zielen nähern können, die wir in diesen vier Vorträgen anstreben. Das also, was eben gesagt worden ist, verspricht uns, daß der Mensch, wenn et sich an das hält, was er im Gedanken hat, eine intime Beziehung seines Wesens zum Weltall, zum Kosmos, finden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/151/1914-01-20/p006"}],"english":["GA 151/1914-01-20/p006","GA 151/1914-01-20/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":153,"en_words":129,"ratio":0.84,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 151/1914-01-20/p006"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5201,"original_word_count":5374,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1961","book_title":"Human and Cosmic Thought (1961)","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA151/English/RSP1961/19140120p01.html","evidence":"edition_cover_credit","note":"The lecture's own page names no translator; the cover of the book it was taken from (https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA151/English/RSP1961/HuCoTh_index.html) lists it and names the translator. 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