{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p061","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see it has already become an ideal, this eliminating of the *I*. But if humanity follows nature, then by the sixth post-Atlantean epoch the *I* will be eliminated altogether in earnest, for if the impulses of will proceeding from the center of one's being are lacking, people will hardly speak of an *I*. During the fifth epoch human beings have had the task to advance to talking up an *I*. But they could lose this *I* again if they do not really search for it through inner effort. Those who know anything at all about this aspect of the world could tell you things about the number of people one already meets who say they sense a weakness of their *I*. How many people are there today who do not know what to do with themselves, because they do not know how to fill their souls with spiritual content? Here we are facing a chapter of unspeakable misery of soul that is more widespread in our time than one usually imagines. For the number of people unable to cope with life because they cannot find impulses within themselves to support their *I* in the world of appearances is constantly growing.","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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Aber wenn die Menschheit sich der Natur überläßt, wird das Ich für den sechsten nachatlantischen Zeitraum überhaupt in Wirklichkeit ausgeschaltet sein; denn wenn die Willensimpulse fehlen werden, die aus dem Zentrum des eigenen Wesens hervorgehen, dann wird man von einem Ich wenig sprechen. Die Menschen haben sich im fünften Zeitraum zu einem Ich zu erheben gehabt. Aber dieses Ich könnte ihnen wieder verlorengehen, wenn sie es nicht durch eine innere Anstrengung wirklich suchen. Wieviel einem leider heute schon Menschen begegnen, die davon sprechen, daß sie eine Schwächung ihres Ich empfinden, davon weiß derjenige zu erzählen, der über solche Dinge in der Welt überhaupt etwas weiß. Wie viele Menschen wissen heute schon mit sich nichts Rechtes anzufangen, weil sie nicht in konkreter Weise die Artung ihrer Seele mit geistigen Inhalten auszufüllen wissen. Das ist ein Kapitel, wovor wir stehen als vor einem Kapitel unsäglichen inneren Seelenjammers, der beispielsweise in unserer Gegenwart mehr lebt als man gewöhnlich glaubt. Denn die Zahl derjenigen Menschen wird immer größer und größer, welche der Welt aus dem Grunde ratlos gegenüberstehen, weil sie in ihrem Innern nicht Impulse finden, um dieses Ich durch die Welt der Erscheinungen zu tragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p045"}],"english":["GA 166/1916-02-08/p061"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":201,"en_words":201,"ratio":1.0,"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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