{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In addition to perceiving the aura of human beings, people then saw it to a far greater extent than now in animals and also in plants. You all know the description in my book *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds* that if we observe one seed, we see it shining differently from other grains of seed.[^2] Nowadays this perception can only be achieved through training, but in earlier centuries it was still quite an ordinary, everyday phenomenon. People did not first have to investigate, possibly with a microscope, what plant a seed came from—even that can in many cases no longer be done today—for they were able to determine such things from the light aura surrounding the seed. And in the case of minerals too, you will find descriptions in old writings classifying them in a certain way according to their value in the world. When the ancients looked at gold, what they described was not invention, for to them gold really appeared in a different way from silver, for instance. When they connected gold with sunlight and silver with moonlight, this was really founded on observation. When they said, “Gold is pure sunlight that has been condensed, silver is moonlight,” and so on, they expressed what they saw in the same way as they still saw elemental life in the outside world, the elemental aura that modern people have lost sight of because modern mankind has to evolve to freedom, which can only be acquired by a complete restriction of observation to what is physically objective.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The I, Will, and Human Evolution's Spiritual Crisis","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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So daß der Mensch nicht etwa mit dem Mikroskop erst untersuchen mußte, was man ja heute in den meisten Fällen auch nicht mehr kann, von welcher Pflanze irgendein Samenkorn ist, sondern aus dem Licht, aus der Lichtaura, die das Samenkorn umschloß, konnten die Menschen solches noch bestimmen. Und bei dem Mineral finden Sie in den älteren Schriften noch Beschreibungen der Mineralien so, daß man in einer bestimmten Art untereinander die Mineralien unterschied nach deren Wert in der Welt. Wenn die Alten das Gold ansahen, sprachen sie vom Gold all dasjenige, was sie aussprachen, nicht aus ihrer Phantasie heraus, sondern weil ihnen das Gold in der Tat in einer anderen Weise erschien als zum Beispiel das Silber. Wenn sie das Gold mit dem Sonnenlicht, das Silber mit dem Mondenlicht in Zusammenhang brachten, so beruhte das wirklich auf einer Beobachtung. Es beruhte wirklich darauf, daß derjenige, der das beobachtete, niemals etwas anderes empfand, indem er aussprach: Das Gold ist reines Sonnenlicht, das nur zusammenverdichtet ist, das Silber Mondenlicht und so weiter, ebenso, wie man in der Außenwelt noch das Elementare sah, das elementar Aurische, was sich für die Menschen der neueren Zeit verloren hat, weil die Menschheit der neueren Zeit eben die Entwickelung durchmachen soll zur Freiheit hin, die nur dadurch gegeben werden kann, daß man ganz und gar nur auf das heute Physisch-Gegenständliche schauen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p011"}],"english":["GA 166/1916-02-08/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":300,"en_words":256,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9740,"original_word_count":9892,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.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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