{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 178/1917-11-16/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the future it will no longer be wholesome for occult brotherhoods to be able to employ such things for the extension of their power. In the coming centuries human beings must increasingly gain knowledge of these beings. The human being in the coming centuries will have to know more and more that he bears such a double within him, such an Ahrimanic-Mephistophelian double. The human being must know this. Today the human being is already developing a great many concepts, but they are actually obscured, because the human being does not yet know how to deal with them in the *right* way. The human being develops concepts today that can have a proper basis only when they are brought together with the facts that lie at their foundation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mystery of the Double: Geographic Medicine","site_heading":"Geographic Medicine and the Ahrimanic Double in Human Nature","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 nicht mehr kann es in der Zukunft vom Heile sein, wenn okkulte Brüderschaften solche Dinge zur Ausbreitung ihrer Macht verwenden können. Die Kenntnis dieser Wesenheiten wird in den nächsten Jahrhunderten immer mehr und mehr die Menschen ergreifen müssen. Der Mensch wird in den nächsten Jahrhunderten immer mehr und mehr wissen müssen, daß er einen solchen Doppelgänger in sich trägt, einen solchen ahrimanischen, mephistophelischen Doppelgänger in sich trägt. Der Mensch muß es wissen. Heute entwickelt allerdings der Mensch schon eine ganze Anzahl von Begriffen, die aber eigentlich blind sind, weil der Mensch doch noch nichts Rechtes mit ihnen anzufangen weiß. Begriffe, sage ich, entwickelt der Mensch heute, die erst auf eine richtige Basis gestellt werden können, wenn sie mit dem, was als Tatsache ihnen zugrunde liegt, zusammengebracht werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p030"}],"english":["GA 178/1917-11-16/p038","GA 178/1917-11-16/p039"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":219,"en_words":225,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10164,"original_word_count":10093,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":"MP1986","book_title":"Geographic Medicine","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA178/English/MP1986/19171116p01.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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