{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the early days, when we were working at spiritual science in Germany, an acquaintance came to us who accepted with enthusiasm what we were able to give at that time. She accepted what it was possible to give out concerning human evolution, cosmic mysteries, reincarnation and karma, not only with devotion and enthusiasm but added to them a wonderful aesthetic sense. Every experience with this person, whether of teaching or conversation, was steeped in beauty. We were few at that time. We had no need to crowd ourselves into such a room as this, and what we now say to a large audience was then discussed by three people—two others and myself. One of these, the person mentioned above, left us upon the physical plane in 1904, and entered the spiritual world. Such people go through a development after death. When we produced Schuré's reconstruction of the *Mystery of Eleusis* at our Congress in 1907, no spiritual influence was perceptible. In 1909 it began, and has come more and more frequently since then. I have accurate knowledge that it was the individuality of our friend whom, objectively and because of her originality, we all loved. Removed to the spiritual world, she acted as a guardian angel to all that we accomplished in the combining of the aesthetic and esoteric elements in our Mysteries. We felt well protected, and looked gratefully upward, realizing that what penetrated us and flowed over into our earthly activities was an expression of the watchfulness of a spiritual personality. But then when it came to conversation with this personality—one may call it conversation since there was a certain reciprocal action—she asserted that she found the way to us easier the more we were permeated with the thought of Christ in the evolution of the earth. If I were to put into earthly words what she reiterated, I should say, expressing symbolically, of course, what is quite different in the spiritual world, “I find the way to you so easily because you are finding evermore the way to make spiritual science into an expression of the living Word of Christ.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-06-01","location":null,"word_count":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/Singles/19140601p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p030"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p030","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Und die Dinge, die wir heute vor großem Zuhörerkreis sprechen, bei deren Besprechung waren wir nur drei: ich mit zwei andern Personen. Die eine dieser Personen verließ uns schon 1904 auf dem physischen Plan, ging in die geistige Welt. Wie es so ist: solche Personen machen eine Entwickelung durch nach dem Tode. Im Jahre 1907, als wir zu unserem Kongreß die Schurésche Rekonstruktion des Mysteriums von Eleusis aufführten, war noch nichts von solchem Einfluß wahrnehmbar. 1909 fing es an, und immer mehr kam es in den letzten Jahren. Genau wußte ich, das ist die Individualität jener uns so befreundeten Persönlichkeit, die man wahrhaftig objektiv, rein wegen solcher Eigenart, lieb haben konnte. Entrückt in die geistige Welt wirkte sie wie ein Schutzengel für das, was wir zu leisten hatten zur Vermählung des Ästhetischen mit dem Esoterischen in unsern Mysterien. Und gut behütet fühlte man so von dieser Persönlichkeit, die 1904 entrückt war in die geistige Welt, dasjenige, was dann übergegangen ist in unsere irdische Wirksamkeit, was hereingeflossen ist in Erdenwirksamkeit und was uns durchdrungen hat, zu dem wir dankbar emporblicken, indem es durch das Ruhen des Seelenauges einer geistigen Persönlichkeit auf unseren Taten zum Ausdruck kam.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":296,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p024"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Aber dann, wenn es sich darum handelte, dasjenige mit der Persönlichkeit zu pflegen, was man nennen kann: Zwiesprache - man kann es Ziwiesprache nennen, weil es eine Art von Wechselwirkung ist —, wenn das eintreten sollte, war es immer wiederum so, daß jene Persönlichkeit offenbarte: sie könne um so besser den Weg finden zu unserer Erdenwirksamkeit, je mehr wir uns durchdringen mit dem Gedanken des Christus in der Erdenentwickelung. Würde ich in Erdenworte dasjenige kleiden, was diese Individualität immer wiederum sprach, so würde ich sagen —- ich muß aber selbstverständlich nur symbolisch ausdrücken das, was in der geistigen Welt anders ist: Ich finde so gut den Weg zu euch, weil ihr immer mehr und mehr den Weg findet, eure Geisteswissenschaft zu einem Ausdruck dessen zu machen, was das lebendige Wort des Christus selber ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":134,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p025"}],"english":["GA 152/1914-06-01/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":430,"en_words":354,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 152/1914-06-01/p024","GA 152/1914-06-01/p025"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4842,"original_word_count":5593,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/Singles/19140601p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 152/1914-06-01/p024","GA 152/1914-06-01/p025"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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