{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 17/l11/p001","lang":"en","edition":"GPP1922","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If the soul enters the supersensible world with clairvoyant consciousness, it learns to know itself there in a way of which in the physical world it can have no conception. It finds that through its faculty of transformation it becomes acquainted with beings to whom it is more or less related; but in addition to this it becomes aware of meeting beings in the supersensible world to whom it is not only related, but with whom it must compare itself, in order to know itself. And it further observes that these beings in supersensible worlds have become what the soul itself, through its adventures and experiences in the physical world, has become. In the elemental world beings confront the human soul who have developed within that world powers and faculties which man himself can only unfold through still having about him his physical body, in addition to his etheric body and the other supersensible principles of his being. The beings here alluded to have no such body with physical senses. They have so evolved that through their etheric body they have a soul-nature such as man has through his physical body. Although to a certain degree they are beings of like nature to himself, they differ from him in not being subject to the conditions of the physical world. They have no senses of the kind which man possesses. Their knowledge is like man's; only they have not acquired it through the gateway of the senses, but through a kind of ascent, or mounting-up of their ideas and other soul-experiences out of the depths of their being. Their inner life is, as it were, at rest within them, and they draw it up out of the depths of their souls, as man from the depths of his soul draws up his memory-pictures.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":302,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l11/p001","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["GPP1922"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l11/p001"},{"lang":"en","edition":"GPP1922","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l11/p001","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 17/l11/p001","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l11/p001"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 17/l11/p001"],"length_check":{"de_words":292,"en_words":302,"ratio":1.03,"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 17/l11/p001","passage_number":1,"text":"Tritt die Seele mit übersinnlichem Bewußtsein in die übersinnliche Welt ein, so lernt sie sich in dieser in einer Art kennen, von welcher sie in der Sinneswelt keine Vorstellung haben kann. Sie findet, daß sie durch ihre Verwandlungsfähigkeit Wesen erkennen lernt, die mit ihr einen größeren oder geringeren Grad von Verwandtschaft haben; sie wird aber auch gewahr, daß sie in der übersinnlichen Welt Wesen antrifft, mit welchen sie nicht nur verwandt ist, sondern mit denen sie sich auch vergleichen muß, um sich kennenzulernen. Und sie macht weiter die Beobachtung, daß diese Wesen in den übersinnlichen Welten das geworden sind, was sie selbst durch ihre Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen in der Sinneswelt geworden ist. In der elementarischen Welt treten der Menschenseele Wesen entgegen, welche innerhalb dieser Welt Kräfte und Fähigkeiten entwickelt haben, die der Mensch selbst nur dadurch entfalten kann, daß er außer seinem ätherischen Leibe und den anderen übersinnlichen Gliedern seiner Wesenheit noch den physischen Leib an sich trägt. Die Wesen, auf welche hier hingedeutet wird, haben keinen solchen physisch-sinnlichen Leib. Sie haben sich so entwickelt, daß sie durch ihren ätherischen Leib eine Seelenwesenheit haben, welche der Mensch durch den physischen Leib hat. Trotzdem sie bis zu einem gewissen Grade mit dem Menschen gleichartige Wesenheiten sind, unterscheiden sie sich von ihm dadurch, daß sie den Bedingungen der Sinneswelt nicht unterworfen sind. Sie haben keine Sinne von der Art, wie der Mensch sie hat. Ihr Wissen gleicht dem menschlichen Wissen; aber sie haben es nicht durch Sinne erworben, sondern durch eine Art Aufsteigen ihrer Vorstellungen und ihrer anderen Seelenerlebnisse aus den Tiefen ihrer Wesenheit. Es ist ihr Innenleben gleichsam in sie gelegt; und sie holen es aus ihren Seelentiefen herauf, wie der Mensch seine Erinnerungsvorstellungen aus seinen Seelentiefen heraufholt.Von geistigen Weltwesenheiten Von geistigen Weltwesenheiten","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":292,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l11/p001"}],"english":["GA 17/l11/p001"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":292,"en_words":302,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 17/l11/p001"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":1623,"original_word_count":1510,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","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 17/l11/p001"],"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."}}