{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-04-29/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now one might perhaps believe that it is not necessary for a person to occupy himself with this spiritual-soul element within him, because this spiritual-soul element will already find its way in the world. But that is not the case. That which is spiritual and soul in us takes hold of us and is in us, and is to some extent wrapped in our body, in part in our abilities, in part in our destiny. And one could say: It is precisely in the present developmental cycle of humanity, in which humanity has now arrived and in whose sense it will continue to develop towards the future, precisely in the sense of this present and the future, that the human being, as a spiritual principle of his body, as a spiritual principle of his life and his abilities, as a spiritual principle of his destiny, redeems what has become incarnate in him. We cannot escape the spirit. The spirit lives in us. We can leave it out of consideration, but it still lives in us. We can look at the laziest, most comfortable, most casual person who has never made an effort in his life to bring something that lies as a religious or spiritual disposition in his mind to independent development, who has remained quite dull, so to speak. We can look at him: he is not spiritless. To speak of people as spiritless is just an incorrect word. There are no spiritless people; nor is it possible to be spiritless in life. For the spiritual and the soul are our endowment when we enter the physical world from the spiritual worlds; they are allotted to us according to what we have gone through before we descended to this present life on earth. We cannot be without spirit, but we can disregard the spirit within us. We can, as it were, sin against it, we can refuse to want to redeem it. We can want it to merely slip into us, to shroud itself within us: then it is present in us, but we have not liberated it within us, we have not redeemed it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Man and the World","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-04-29","location":null,"word_count":356,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/182/1918-04-29/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death as a Way of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/SOL2024/19180429p01.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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Und man könnte sagen: Gerade in dem gegenwärtigen Entwickelungszyklus der Menschheit, in dem die Menschheit jetzt angekommen ist und in deren Sinn sie sich immer weiter gegen die Zukunft hin entwickeln wird, gerade im Sinne dieser Gegenwart und der Zukunft liegt es, daß der Mensch das, was sich so in ihn einlebt als geistiges Prinzip seines Leibes, als geistiges Prinzip seines Lebenslaufes und seiner Fähigkeiten, als geistiges Prinzip seines Schicksals, gewissermaßen erlöst. Dem Geiste entkommen wir nicht. Der Geist lebt einmal in uns. Wir können ihn unberücksichtigt lassen, dann lebt er trotzdem in uns. Wir können den faulsten, den bequemsten, den lässigsten Menschen ansehen, der niemals in seinem Leben sich Mühe gegeben hat, irgend etwas, was als religiöse oder geistige Anlagen in seinem Gemüte liegt, zur selbständigen Ausbildung zu bringen, der gewissermaßen ganz stumpf geblieben ist, wir können ihn ansehen: geistlos ist er nicht. Als geistlos von den Menschen zu sprechen, ist nur ein unrichtiges Wort. Es gibt keine geistlosen Menschen; es gibt auch nicht die Möglichkeit, im Leben geistlos zu sein. Denn das Geistige und das Seelische ist unsere Mitgabe, indem wir aus den geistigen Welten in die physische Welt eintreten; es ist uns zugeteilt nach Maßgabe desjenigen, was wir durchgemacht haben, bevor wir zu diesem jetzigen Erdenleben heruntergestiegen sind. Wir können nicht geistlos sein, aber wir können den Geist in uns unberücksichtigt lassen. Wir können uns gewissermaßen gegen ihn versündigen, wir können ihn nicht erlösen wollen. Wir können wollen, daß er nur in uns hineinschlüpft, in uns sich verhüllt: dann ist er in uns vorhanden, aber wir haben ihn nicht in uns befreit, wir haben ihn nicht erlöst.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":341,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/182/1918-04-29/p005"}],"english":["GA 182/1918-04-29/p005"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":341,"en_words":356,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7548,"original_word_count":7273,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death as a Way of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/SOL2024/19180429p01.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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