{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Not only does the trichotomy of body, soul and spirit lie at the root of an understanding of man, but a trichotomy determines the path we must follow if we really wish to arrive at an understanding of the universe. Our epoch which is so chaotic in thought does not easily grasp such ideas and for the most part is indifferent to them. As you know, there are atheists, those who deny the existence of God; there are also deniers of Jesus; and there are materialists, deniers of the spirit. To be an atheist is possible only for those who are wholly insensitive to the phenomena of external nature. For if the physical forces in us are not blunted, we are continually aware of the presence of God. Atheism is really sickness of the soul, a disease of the human personality. To deny Christ is not a sickness; we must make every effort to find Him in the unfolding of human evolution. If we do not find Him we are lost to the power that redeems the soul from death. This is a misfortune of the soul. Atheism is a sickness of the soul, of the human personality. To deny Christ is a misfortune of the human soul. Note the difference. To deny the Spirit is to be guilty of self-deception.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Christ's Cosmic Mission and the Transformation of Faith","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 sind die leiblichen Kräfte nicht stumpf, so kann man eigentlich nicht Atheist werden; man erlebt ja den Gott fortwährend. Atheismus ist eine wirkliche Seelenkrankheit. — Jesus Christus leugnen ist nicht eine Krankheit, denn man muß ihn finden im Werden der Menschheitsentwickelung. Findet man ihn nicht, so findet man diejenige Kraft nicht, welche die Seele rettet über den Tod hinaus. Das ist ein Unglück der Seele. Atheist sein ist eine Krankheit der Seele, eine Krankheit des menschlichen Selbstes. Jesus-Leugner sein, Christus-Leugner sein, ist ein Unglück der menschlichen Seele. Merken Sie wohl den Unterschied. — Den Geist leugnen ist Selbsttäuschung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p042"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p040"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":200,"en_words":221,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8744,"original_word_count":8870,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. 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