{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-13/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These are cases again in which one realises that the human being, after he has gone through the gate of death, is dependent on looking back at himself in self-knowledge. One could see clearly that somebody who is still in the physical body can help the dead to formulate in words what works and weaves in him. Of course, the times, when the human being sees his weaknesses and mistakes, his sins, come later in the soul-world. But we have to retain: as much as death is feared now and again by those who are still in the body, death is something completely different seen from the other side in the retrospective view. Here in the physical life nobody can look so far back with his everyday human forces to the hour of his birth. Actually, nobody who does not have clairvoyant forces has the possibility to look at his entry into the world; only later the point in time up to which one can look back takes place.","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":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-13/p030","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. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"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/159/1915-03-13/p030"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-13/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. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-03-13","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 159/1915-03-13/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/159/1915-03-13/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":369,"en_words":367,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 159/1915-03-13/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Das sind wiederum Fälle, in denen so recht klar wird, wie der Mensch, indem er durch die Pforte des Todes geschritten ist, angewiesen ist darauf, in Selbsterkenntnis auf sein Selbst zurückzublicken. Und man konnte deutlich sehen, wie es für den Toten eine gewisse Hilfe ist, wenn der noch im physischen Leibe Weilende ihm hilft zu formulieren, in Worte zu fassen dasjenige, was in ihm waltet und webt. Selbstverständlich kommen später die Zeiten, wo der Mensch seine Schwächen und seine Fehler, seine Sünden erblickt in der Seelenwelt. Aber das müssen wir festhalten: So sehr zuweilen der Tod von denen, die noch im Leibe weilen, gefürchtet wird, von der andern Seite rückblickend gesehen, nimmt sich der Tod ganz anders aus. Hier im physischen Leben kann kein Mensch mit den gewöhnlichen Menschenkräften bis zur Stunde seiner Geburt zurückblicken. Eigentlich gibt es für keinen Menschen, der nicht hellsichtige Kräfte hat, eine Möglichkeit, sein Eintreten in die Welt anzuschauen; erst später tritt der Zeitpunkt ein, bis zu dem man zurückschauen kann. Gerade das Umgekehrte ist der Fall mit jener Geburt für die geistige Welt, die wir den Tod nennen. Auf diesen Zeitpunkt blickt der Mensch unausgesetzt in dem Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt. Allein dieser Moment gehört zum Herrlichsten, Großartigsten, zum Allerschönsten, auf das man überhaupt in der geistigen Welt sehen kann. Von der andern Seite gesehen ist der Tod immer unmittelbar beweiskräftig dafür, daß der Geist unablässig seinen Sieg über die Leiblichkeit feiert. Und das erlebt man an sich selbst. Daher dieses Streben, das, was man sein kann, auch wirklich in der Seele nach dem Tode zu erleben. Daher ist es eine Hilfe, wenn eine im Leibe lebende Seele dasjenige in Worte prägt, wonach die Seele strebt, damit ihr das, was sie ist, klar mit all dem Besten, das sie hat, vor dem eigenen geistigen Blick stehe, nachdem sie durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist. Man konnte gerade in diesem Falle so recht sehen, wie einem mit einer inneren Notwendigkeit solche Worte kommen, die sich auf das Selbst der betreffenden Seele beziehen, wenn man bei der Bestattung zu sprechen hat und nicht aus Willkür heraus spricht, sondern der göttlichen Stimme gehorcht, die einen zu tun heißt, was man zu tun hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":369,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/159/1915-03-13/p023"}],"english":["GA 159/1915-03-13/p030","GA 159/1915-03-13/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":369,"en_words":367,"ratio":0.99,"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. 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. Cite the German for anything load-bearing.","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 159/1915-03-13/p023"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}