{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 152/1914-05-27/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In order to understand the significance of this event, we must speak of a danger that threatened the entire human evolution in the Lemurian period through the forces of Lucifer. If humanity had not averted this danger, all that we call the human being's sensory perception would have been disrupted. Under the influence of Lucifer, the sensory powers would not have been able to develop as they have done, but would have become much more sensitive, much more capable of arousal in relation to the outside world. For example, we would have had to go through the world like this: If we had seen a blue color, it would have been as if it had been sucked into our eyes and we would have felt something like a sucking power, and if we had seen a red color, we would have felt something like a stinging in the eyes. We only have to imagine what we humans would have become if we had been thrown back and forth at every turn in life by the sensory perceptions in nothing but arousing impressions. This danger was averted by the fact that the Christ, I must now say, did not embody himself, but rather ensouled himself in an archangelic being, and the powers that radiated from the spiritual worlds as a result poured into the evolution of mankind, and the powers of the senses were harmonized so that the danger just discussed was averted from people and they received the necessary balance. Today, when we consider the moderation of our sensory perceptions, we can look back to the ancient Lemurian time and say: It was then that the Christ sacrificed Himself, ensouled Himself in an archangelic being, and took from us the danger of hypersensitivity of our sensory system.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Progress in the Knowledge of the Christ: The Fifth Gospel","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-27","location":null,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-05-27/p007","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140527.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Zum Beispiel hätten wir dann so dutch die Welt gehen müssen: Wenn wir eine blaue Farbe gesehen hätten, so würde diese an unserem Auge wie gesogen haben und wir würden etwas wie eine aussaugende Kraft empfunden haben, und wenn wir eine rote Farbe gesehen hätten, würden wir etwas empfunden haben wie ein Stechen in den Augen. Wir müssen uns nur vorstellen, was wir Menschen geworden wären, wenn wir auf Schritt und Tritt im Leben durch die Sinneswahrnehmungen in lauter erregenden Eindrücken hin und her geworfen worden wären. Diese Gefahr wurde dadurch abgewendet, daß sich der Christus, ich muß jetzt sagen, nicht verkörperte, sondern verseelte in einer Erzengelwesenheit, und die Kräfte, die dadurch von den geistigen Welten ausstrahlen konnten, ergossen sich in die Menschheitsentwickelung, und die Sinneskräfte wurden harmonisiert, so daß die eben besprochene Gefahr von den Menschen abgewendet wurde und sie das nötige Gleichmaß bekamen. Wir können also heute, wenn wir daran denken, in welcher Mäßigkeit unsere Sinneswahrnehmungen verlaufen, zurückblicken in die alte lemurische Zeit und sagen: Damals war es, dal3 der Christus sich opferte, sich verseelte in einer Erzengelwesenheit und von uns nahm die Gefahr der Hypersensitivität unseres Sinnensystems.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-05-27/p007"}],"english":["GA 152/1914-05-27/p007"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":268,"en_words":297,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5623,"original_word_count":5431,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140527.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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