{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-10-09_02/p050","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In earlier ages it would have been useless for the Ahrimanic spirits to try in this way through theories to becloud the truth. Why? In the Greco-Latin period, and even more truly in earlier times, when man still possessed atavistic clairvoyance, the manner of his thinking was unim-portant, for he still had the pictures through which he looked into the spiritual world. Whatever Ahriman might have suggested about his relation to the animals would have had no effect upon his conduct. Thinking became powerful—powerful in its weakness, one might say—only in our own fifth post-Atlantean period. Only since the 15th century has thinking been competent to lead the consciousness-soul into spiritual realms—or, on the other hand, to hinder it from entering the spiritual world. Only now are we living in an age when a theory, a science, by a conscious method may rob man of his divinity, or his experiences of divinity. This is possible only in the period of the consciousness-soul. Therefore the Ahrimanic spirits are striving to spread a teaching that will obscure the divine origin of man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"What Does the Angel Do in Our Astral Body?","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-10-09","location":null,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/182/1918-10-09_02/p050","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/Singles/19181009p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Das Denken ist erst mächtig geworden - in seiner Ohnmacht mächtig geworden, könnte man sagen - in unserem fünften nachatlantischen Zeitalter, seit dem 15. Jahrhundert. Erst seit jener Zeit ist das Denken geeignet, die Bewußtseinsseele hineinzubringen in das geistige Gebiet, damit aber auch, sie zu verhindern, hineinzukommen in die geistige Welt. Erst jetzt erleben wir die Zeit, wo eine Theorie durch Wissenschaft auf bewußte Weise dem Menschen seine Göttlichkeit und die Erfahrungen über das Göttliche raubt. Das ist eben nur im Zeitalter der Bewußtseinsseele möglich. Daher streben die ahrimanischen Geister an, solche Lehren über den Menschen zu verbreiten, die den göttlichen Ursprung des Menschen verdunkeln.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/182/1918-10-09_02/p030"}],"english":["GA 182/1918-10-09_02/p050"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":196,"en_words":180,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6951,"original_word_count":7380,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/Singles/19181009p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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