{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Can anyone really believe that when a thinker such as African Spir dies he simply disappears as far as the world here is concerned? The spiritual world is no cloud-cuckoo-land; just as our individual bodies are permeated by soul and spirit, so does soul and spirit permeate the whole cosmos. Soul and spirit live all around us like the air. What a man has produced, in a life of strenuous thinking while in a physical body, does not just disappear when he dies and passes into the spiritual world. In such cases something very remarkable happens. A thinker who here on earth has met with much acclaim is in a different position to a solitary neglected thinker like Spir. A thinker, who receives much popular recognition, has as it were finished with his thoughts when he dies. Not so a thinker like Spir, he strives to protect his thoughts—what I am now saying is of the greatest importance—which are present spiritually in the physical world. Such a thinker remains with his thoughts. He protects them for a period lasting decades; during this time they are not accessible to human beings living in physical bodies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Forgotten Aspects of Cultural Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-07-31","location":null,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Karma of Materialism","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1985/19170731p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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Verschwunden ist das nicht. Denn ein sehr Eigentümliches liegt vor: Ein Denker, der viel Beifall findet, ist in einer anderen Lage, als ein einsam bleibender Denker wie African Spir. Ein Denker, der Mode geworden ist, ist gewissermaßen mit seinen Gedanken fertig dann, wenn er durch des Todes Pforte gegangen ist. Ein Denker wie Spir ist nicht mit seinen Gedanken fertig, sondern etwas anderes tritt ein: er hütet seine Gedanken. Und damit sage ich Ihnen etwas sehr Bedeutungsvolles. Diese Gedanken sind da in der physischen Welt, geistig, und er hütet sie. Und dadurch, daß ein solcher Denker seine Gedanken hütet, gewissermaßen bei ihnen bleibt eine gewisse Zeit hindurch, die nach Jahrzehnten sich berechnet, dadurch entziehen sich die Gedanken den Menschen, die dann in dieser Zeit, während er seine Gedanken behütet, im physischen Leibe leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":249,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p014"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p019"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":249,"en_words":194,"ratio":0.78,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6890,"original_word_count":7508,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Karma of Materialism","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1985/19170731p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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