{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 173c/1917-01-20/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Something else, too, is necessary, and that is the goodwill to resist all that untruthfulness about which we have been speaking in these lectures. All these untruthfulnesses that buzz about in the world enter into what might be called the spiritual aura and generate there a thick fog which the dead find impossible to penetrate. This thick fog contains all that black rubbish which comes, for instance—to name only one source—from today's journalism, in the form of untruths which are printed and repeated, creating an aura of untruthfulness spanning the earth. It is no exaggeration to say that it is exceedingly difficult for the dead to penetrate this black fog. Therefore, with the help of ideas such as those we have been developing concerning the absolutely concrete untruthfulness buzzing about in the world, it is necessary to endeavour to reach clarity, to really make the effort in this field to recognize the purely external truth of the physical plane in so far as this can become accessible to us, in order not to cover our soul with a dense fog through which the spiritual world simply cannot penetrate. You will understand how very necessary this is.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXI","site_heading":"Ceremonial Magic, Dead Souls, and Ahrimanic Immortality","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 diese Unwahrhaftigkeiten, die durch die Welt schwirren, die sind auch dasjenige, was sich hineinstellt in die, sagen wir geistige Aura, und die es unmöglich macht, daß die Toten durch diesen dichten Nebel all des schwarzen Zeuges, was, um nur eines zu nennen, heute etwa von unserer Publizistik ausgeht an Unwahrheiten, die gedruckt und nachgesprochen werden, was sich da über die ganze Erde hinspannt als eine Aura des Unwahrhaftigen, hindurchdringen. Durch das durchzudringen, ist, wir können es geradezu mit diesen Worten sagen, den Toten außerordentlich schwierig. Daher ist es notwendig, daß man gerade versucht, sich mit Hilfe solcher Vorstellungen, wie wir sie entwickelten, um zu erkennen, was wirklich an konkreter Unwahrhaftigkeit heute durch die Welt schwirrt, aufzuklären, daß man wirklich sich auf diesem Felde bestrebt, die rein äußere Wahrheit des physischen Planes zu erkennen, soweit sie einem zugänglich ist, damit man nicht ein Nebelgebilde vor seine Seele stellt, durch das die geistige Welt eben einfach nicht durch kann. Sie werden begreifen, wie stark dieses nötig ist, was ich jetzt andeute.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/173c/1917-01-20/p017"}],"english":["GA 173c/1917-01-20/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":202,"en_words":196,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5322,"original_word_count":5331,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1988","book_title":"The Karma of Untruthfulness II","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA173c/English/RSP1988/19170120p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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