{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 162/1915-05-29/p052","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today I want to draw attention to something else. There is an enormous difference between the relationship between day and night, the relationship between the sun and the earth, and the relationship between sleeping and waking in humans: you cannot imagine that the same thing can happen to the sun as can happen to humans. I mean, a person has a good meal and sleeps at the wrong time, or sleeps at the wrong time for some other reason. The sun does not do that. Because, think about what it would be like if the sun suddenly decided not to rise above the horizon at a certain time and everything that makes day into night happened all at once. You cannot possibly imagine that a constellation will arise in the universe that is analogous to man sleeping when he wants, arbitrarily arranging his waking and sleeping times. How far removed the sun is from that! It is impossible for the sun to overdo itself and stop shining in the middle of the day, so that night falls. As far as it is from anyone falling asleep during the day – it is easy, it just needs to be a little hot and one thinks that one has to sleep with the heat – so far away from freedom are natural necessity and natural law, so far away from the spirit is nature. But so far is the understanding that humanity has today, that the present time has, from the understanding that it will have to acquire through spiritual science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Third Lecture","site_heading":"Spiritual Knowledge and the Renewal of Inner Experience","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Denn, denken Sie, was das wäre, wenn der Sonne plötzlich einfiele, daß sie zu einer bestimmten Zeit nicht über dem Horizont stehen würde und alles das eintreten würde ganz plötzlich, was den Tag zur Nacht macht. - Sie können sich unmöglich vorstellen, daß im Weltall die Konstellation eintritt, die dem analog wäre, daß der Mensch schläft, wann er will, willkürlich seine Wachens- und Schlafenszeit einrichtet. Wie weit entfernt ist die Sonne davon! Unmöglich ist es, daß die Sonne sich überißt und mitten am Tage aufhört zu scheinen, so daß Nacht eintritt. So weit das entfernt ist von dem, daß irgend jemand am Tage einschläft - es ist leicht, es braucht nur etwas heiß zu sein, und er meint, daß man bei der Hitze schlafen muß -, so weit ist Naturnotwendigkeit und Naturgesetzmäßigkeit von Freiheit entfernt, so weit ist die Natur vom Geist entfernt. So weit ist aber auch das Verständnis, das die Menschheit heute hat, das die heutige Zeit hat, entfernt von dem Verständnis, das sie wird durch Geisteswissenschaft sich aneignen müssen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-05-29/p052"}],"english":["GA 162/1915-05-29/p052"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":256,"en_words":259,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6645,"original_word_count":6608,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Artistic and Existential Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA162/English/SOL2024/19150529p01.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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