{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-07/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I say the following not because of personal reasons, but because it characterises the situation, the whole nerve of the matter in a symptom, I would like to remind you of the fact that I held talks in Berlin which were printed then in my writing *Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Spiritual Life*, before I had any external interrelation with the British theosophical movement. In this writing nobody will find anything of western influence, but there everything is developed purely out of the Central European cultural life, from the spiritual, mystic movement of Master Eckhart up to Angelus Silesius. When I came to London the first time, I met one of the pundits of the theosophical society in those days, Mr. Mead.[^7] He had read the book which was immediately translated in many chapters into the English, and said that the whole theosophy would be contained in this book.—So far as people admitted that they could go along with us, so far we could unite with the whole object, of course; but nothing else was done.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-03-07","location":null,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-07/p030","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"UNK2013","book_title":"The Mystery of Death","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159/English/UNK2013/19150307p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Es wird gar nicht bemerkt, weil es noch, ich möchte sagen, im Strom der Erscheinungen verfließt, wenn man einmal das mitteleuropäische Wesen geltend macht. Ich weiß nicht, von wievielen das Folgende bemerkt worden ist. Als aus den Gründen, die auch gestern im öffentlichen Vortrag genannt wurden, unsere geisteswissenschaftliche Bewegung sich von der spezifisch britischen Richtung der Theosophischen Gesellschaft frei machen mußte und als vor langer Zeit das gewissermaßen im Geistigen vorausgeschehen ist, was jetzt im Kriege sich vollzieht —- und aus guten Gründen vorausgegangen, vorausgeschehen ist -—, habe ich dazumal an Symptomen die ganze Sache besprochen und erklärt. Es gibt törichte Menschen, welche urteilen wollen über das, was unsere geisteswissenschaftliche Bewegung ist. und oftmals gesagt haben: Nun ja, auch diese mitteleuropäische geisteswissenschaftliche Bewegung ist ja von dem ausgegangen, was sie von der britischen theosophischen Bewegung bekommen hat. Da möchte ich doch daran erinnern, daß ich erzählt habe - ich sage das nicht aus persönlichen Gründen, sondern weil es die Lage, den ganzen Nerv der Sache an einem Symptom charakterisiert —, wie ich, bevor ich irgendwie einen äußeren Zusammenhang hatte mit der britisch-theosophischen Bewegung, in Berlin Vorträge gehalten habe, die dann gedruckt wurden in meiner Schrift «Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geistesleben». In dieser Schrift wird kein Mensch etwas von irgendeinem Einfluß vom Westen finden, sondern da ist rein aus dem mitteleuropäischen Geistesleben heraus alles entwickelt, aus der spirituellen, mystischen Bewegung von Meister Eckart bis zu Angelus Silesius. Und als ich das erste Mal nach London gekommen bin, hat dazumal eine der Koryphäen der’Theosophischen Gesellschaft, Mr. Mead, der das Buch gelesen hat, das gleich in vielen Kapiteln ins Englische übersetzt worden ist, gesagt, in diesem Buche stehe eigentlich die ganze 'Theosophie darin. —- So weit, als die Leute zugegeben haben, daß sie mit uns gehen können, so weit konnten wir selbstverständlich uns mit der ganzen Sache vereinigen; aber etwas anderes ist auch nicht gemacht worden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/159/1915-03-07/p024"}],"english":["GA 159/1915-03-07/p029","GA 159/1915-03-07/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":328,"en_words":332,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9799,"original_word_count":9873,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"UNK2013","book_title":"The Mystery of Death","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159/English/UNK2013/19150307p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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