{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 173c/1917-01-20/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those who know how huge a number of such societies exist in the West can begin to gain an idea of what immensely effective tools such societies of ceremonial magic can be for certain far-reaching plans for the world. As you have seen, the chief aim is to prolong into our time a way of proceeding in which the spiritual world works into the sense-perceptible, physical world in a manner that was right in earlier times. For our times, however, the right procedure is for human beings to go towards the dead and meet them half-way. In the mood we have just been discussing, however, a path is sought which was appropriate in earlier, atavistic times but which today is brought about through the medium of ceremonial magic.","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1917-01-20","location":null,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/173c/1917-01-20/p034","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"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. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/173c/1917-01-20/p034","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"stenogram","scope":"volume","note":"Shorthand transcript taken during the lecture — the strongest kind of lecture record in this corpus.","evidence":"Diese dreibändige Ausgabe wurde auf der Grundlage der stenografischen Nachschriften vollständig neu bearbeitet.","evidence_translation":"This three-volume edition was completely re-edited on the basis of the shorthand transcripts.","evidence_source":"The publisher's description of GA 173a-c, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 173a-c). The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1917-01-20","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 173c/1917-01-20/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/173c/1917-01-20/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":358,"en_words":351,"ratio":0.98,"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 173c/1917-01-20/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Es ist immer nur eine kleine Anzahl von Menschen, die mit all diesen Dingen vertraut sind, denn solche Gesellschaften sind in der Regel so organisiert, daß die zeremonielle Magie namentlich auf diejenigen wirken soll, die ahnungslos sind, auf Menschen, die ein gewisses Bedürfnis haben, mit der geistigen Welt in Beziehung zu treten durch allerlei symbolische Handlungen. Solcher Menschen gibt es viele. Es sind wahrhaftig an sich nicht die schlechtesten Menschen, die das erreichen wollen. Solche Menschen werden nun in den Kreis der zeremoniellen Magie hereingenommen, und eine kleine Anzahl setzt sich dann zusammen, die eigentlich nur sich der andern, die in den Kreis der zeremoniellen Magie hereingesponnen sind, als Instrumente bedienen. Daher sollte man vorsichtig sein gegenüber allen sogenannten okkulten Gesellschaften, welche sogenannte höhere Grade verwalten, deren Ziele für die untern Grade ein Geheimnis bleiben. Diese Verwaltungsgrade umfassen in der Regel diejenigen, die eigentlich erst soweit eingeweiht sind, daß sie eine Ahnung haben von demjenigen, was ich Ihnen jetzt gesagt habe, sie umfassen diejenigen, die in positiver Weise bewußt wirken sollen, welche gewisse Ziele und Richtungen angeben, die dann verwirklicht werden dadurch, daß man das Gros der andern hat, die in den Kreis der zeremoniellen Magie nur eingesponnen sind. Alles, was diese Leute tun, wird so getan, daß es in der von den oberen Graden gewollten Richtung geschieht, aber verstärkt durch die Kräfte, die aus der zeremoniellen Magie kommen. Wer sich ein wenig Einblick verschafft in die ungeheuer große Zahl von solchen Gesellschaften des Westens, welche zeremonielle Magie treiben, der kann dann auch eine Ahnung bekommen, welches ungeheuer wirksame Instrument für weitgehende Weltenpläne solche Gesellschaften sein können. Denn das Wesentliche besteht ja, wie Sie gesehen haben, darin, daß ein gewisses Hereinwirken des Spirituellen in das Physisch-Sinnliche, wie es in früheren Zeiten richtig war, in unsere Zeit heraufgenommen wird, während in unserer Zeit das Richtige ist, daß der Mensch in der geschilderten Weise entgegenkommt den Toten, so daß man sich gewissermaßen mit den Toten auf halbem Wege begegnet. In der Ihnen angedeuteten Stimmung wird hier ein Weg gesucht, der für frühere, atavistische Zeiten der Weg war und der in die Gegenwart durch das Medium der zeremoniellen Magie hereingenommen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":358,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/173c/1917-01-20/p026"}],"english":["GA 173c/1917-01-20/p033","GA 173c/1917-01-20/p034"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":358,"en_words":351,"ratio":0.98,"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. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing.","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 173c/1917-01-20/p026"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","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."}}