{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 178/1917-11-16/p057","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"On the other hand, there very easily arises from individual territories the endeavor to increase power and power and power. And the great danger emerging from the one-sided way in which the evolution of modern humanity is advancing can be judged from concrete, from truly concrete conditions, only when one knows that the earth is an organism, when one knows what is actually occurring from the various points of the earth. In Eastern Europe there is relatively little inclination purely toward what streams out of the earth. The Russians, for example, are fervently connected through the soil, but they receive quite special forces out of the soil, forces that do not come from the earth. The secret of the Russian geography consists of the fact that the Russian receives from the earth the light that is first imparted to the earth and then reflected back again from the earth. The Russian actually takes from the earth what streams toward it from outer regions. The Russian loves his earth, but he loves it because to him it is a mirror of the heavens. Because of this the Russian, even though he is so territorially minded, has something in this territorial inclination that is extraordinarily cosmopolitan although today this remains at a childlike stage—because the earth, moving through space, comes into relation to every possible part of the earth's environment. And when a person receives into his soul, not what streams upward from below in the earth but what streams downward from above and then upward again, then it is different from receiving streams directly from the earth, which are placed in a certain kinship to human nature. But what the Russian loves in his earth, with which he permeates himself, gives him many weaknesses, but above all it gives him a certain ability to conquer that double nature of which I have spoken previously. Therefore he will be called upon to offer the most important impulses to the epoch in which this double nature must finally be subdued, in the sixth post-Atlantean epoch.","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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Das Geheimnis der russischen Geographie besteht darinnen, daß das, was der Russe von der Erde aufnimmt, zuerst das der Erde mitgeteilte Licht ist, das von der Erde wieder zurückgeht. Also der Russe nimmt eigentlich aus der Erde dasjenige auf, was aus den äußeren Regionen zu der Erde erst hinströmt; der Russe liebt seine Erde, aber er liebt sie eben aus dem Grunde, weil sie ihm ein Spiegel ist des Himmels. Dadurch aber hat der Russe, wenn er noch so territorial gesinnt ist, in dieser territorialen Gesinnung etwas — wenn es auch heute noch auf einer kindlichen Stufe ist — außerordentlich Kosmopolitisches: weil die Erde, indem sie sich durch den Weltenraum bewegt, mit allen möglichen Partien des Erdenumkreises in Beziehung kommt. Und wenn man nicht dasjenige in die Seele aufnimmt, was von unten nach oben strömt in der Erde, sondern dasjenige, was von oben nach unten und wiederum hinaufströmt, dann ist es etwas anderes, als wenn man aufnimmt das, was — direkt von der Erde ausströmend - in eine gewisse Verwandtschaft zur Menschennatur gesetzt wird. Das aber, was der Russe an seiner Erde liebt, womit er sich durchdringt, das gibt ihm manche Schwäche, aber auch vor allen Dingen eine gewisse Fähigkeit, jene Doppelgängernatur zu überwinden, von der ich Ihnen vorhin gesprochen habe. Daher wird er berufen sein, in dem Zeitalter die wichtigsten Impulse zu liefern, in welchem diese Doppelgängernatur endgültig bekämpft werden muß, in der sechsten nachatlantischen Kulturpetiode.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":352,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p043"}],"english":["GA 178/1917-11-16/p057"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":352,"en_words":342,"ratio":0.97,"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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