{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1917-05-11/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All this is not said to, as they say in Austria, grumble or gripe, or to some extent to rant, but it is said because the symptoms are now appearing daily that the intention is to put an end to our spiritual movement in the way indicated, and because the tendency must arise to see the snowball at the top, and not just the avalanche when it has reached the bottom. Just a few hours before I came here, among other things, a letter was read to me in which it was once again related that two people had come together; I will not mention any names, so such a case can simply be cited as an example. The one is accused of hypnotizing the other, of even sitting behind the other and meditating into the other's neck so that all kinds of harmful things arise in the soul of the person concerned. And then the matter is pursued further. It is only one case, the last one, no, not the last one, there was another one after that, but it is the one that I read about three hours ago. Today it is a harmless matter, but in a few years it may no longer be so: that one person is supposed to have sat behind another in order to meditate all kinds of harmful things into the neck of the other person and thereby exert influence. There is no doubt that the person concerned is as harmless as possible in this matter. But today, my dear friends, this plays between two members; in a few years it will be made into a “Steiner case”, which in turn provides a very nice case for such “studies”. Perhaps it will happen more quickly and will not take a few years.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ninth Lecture","site_heading":"Soul's Independence and Spiritual Science's Defense Against Slander","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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Dem einen wird zur Last gelegt, daß er mit dem anderen Hypnose treibe, daß er sogar sich hinter den anderen gesetzt und meditiert habe in dessen Genick hinein, damit dem Betreffenden allerlei Schädliches in der Seele entstehe. Und die Sache wird dann weiter verfolgt. Es ist nur ein Fall, der letzte, nein, nicht der letzte, es kam hinterher noch ein anderer, aber es ist der, den ich vor drei Stunden gelesen habe. Das ist heute eine harmlose Sache, in ein paar Jahren braucht sie es nicht mehr zu sein: daß der eine sich hinter den anderen gesetzt haben soll, um ihm allerlei Schädliches ins Genick hinein zu meditieren und dadurch Einfluß auszuüben. Daß der Betreffende so harmlos in der Sache ist, wie nur möglich, daran besteht kein Zweifel. Aber heute, meine lieben Freunde, spielt das zwischen zwei Mitgliedern; in ein paar Jahren ist es zu einem «Fall Steiner» gemacht, der wiederum für solche «Studien» einen ganz netten Fall abgibt. Vielleicht geht es auch schneller und bedarf nicht erst der paar Jahre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1917-05-11/p036"}],"english":["GA 174b/1917-05-11/p037"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":282,"en_words":300,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9678,"original_word_count":9444,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19170511p01.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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