{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-13/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If spiritual science shall be a kind of life-force for our souls, and it can be that, this spiritual science must also prove itself powerful and suitable to extend the spiritual ken of the souls dedicating themselves to spiritual science in such times like ours in which a lot prepares which is so significant. One sees the events thereby in a wider perspective than other contemporaries often can do with their narrow view of materialism. One could see in that what our spiritual-scientific movement has nurtured during the years that one of the purposes has also consisted in extending the mood of soul, so that the human being frees himself from the bare thinking about his narrow self and about that what surrounds this narrow self and is really able to look at the big impulses, the big manifestations of forces which go through the whole evolution of humanity. If we have tried that way to extend the vigour of our feelings and sensations as it were, we also have to make the forces suitable which we have won by spiritual science, just in such times, on the one hand, the waves of which break so deeply painfully against the soul and, on the other hand, raise this soul to particular height because they bear such important matters in themselves. We must be able to come already to the position in such times to go along with that what is not so externally visible in the events, what the everyday mind is not able to see in these events. We must be able to ask ourselves: does that mean something prophetic for the whole earth development what as such a dreadful torch of war is burning above our heads?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Intervention of the Christ-Impulse in History—Bridging the Abyss Between the Living and the Dead","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-03-13","location":null,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-13/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","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/UNK2013/19150313p02.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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Man hat sehen können in dem, was durch die Jahre her innerhalb unserer geisteswissenschaftlichen Bewegung gepflegt worden ist, daß eines der Ziele auch darin bestanden hat, die Empfindungsart der Seele zu erweitern, so daß der Mensch von dem bloßen Denken über sein engeres Selbst und über dasjenige, was dieses engere Selbst umgibt, loskommt und wirklich ein wenig hinzuschauen vermag auf die großen Impulse, die großen Kräfteäußerungen, die durch die ganze Entwickelung der Erdenmenschheit gehen. Und wenn wir uns so bemüht haben, gewissermaßen die Spannkraft unserer Gefühle und Empfindungen zu erweitern, so müssen wir auch die Kräfte, die wir durch die Geisteswissenschaft gewonnen haben, geeignet machen können, gerade in solchen Zeiten, die auf der einen Seite so tief schmerzlich heranbranden an die Seele mit ihren Wogen, auf der andern Seite aber diese Seele erheben zu ganz besonderer Höhe, weil sie so Bedeutungsvolles in ihrem Schoße bergen, wir müssen in solchen Zeiten schon in die Lage kommen können, ein wenig mit dem zu gehen, was nicht so äußerlich sichtbar ist in den Ereignissen, was der gewöhnliche Verstand in diesen Ereignissen nicht zu schauen vermag. Wir müssen uns namentlich die Frage aufwerfen können: Bedeutet dasjenige, was als so furchtbare Kriegsfackel entzündet über unseren Häuptern brennt, bedeutet das etwas von prophetischer Art für die ganze Erdenentwickelung?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/159/1915-03-13/p003"}],"english":["GA 159/1915-03-13/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":298,"en_words":289,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9256,"original_word_count":9181,"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/UNK2013/19150313p02.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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