{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 183/1918-08-26/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is only when we do this, my dear friends, that we are able to speak in a form that is ripe today of how man is permitted to know a so-called higher self. When we simply rant about a higher self, when we simply say: I feel a higher self within me . . . then this higher self is a mere empty abstraction with no content; for the ordinary self is in the hands of Maya, is itself Maya. The higher self has only one meaning when we speak of it in connection with the world of the higher hierarchies. To talk of the higher self without paying heed to the world that consists of the spirits of form and the angels, archangels and so on, to speak of the higher self without reference to this world, means that we are speaking of empty abstractions, and at the same time signifies that we are not talking of what lives in man between death and a new birth. For as here we live with animals, plants and minerals, between death and a new birth we live with the kingdoms of the higher hierarchies of whom we have so often spoken. Only when we gradually come nearer to these ideas and concepts (in a week, perhaps, we shall be speaking of them) shall we approach what can answer the question: why do many human beings die as mere children, many in old age, others in middle age?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"The Threefold Sun and Human Metamorphosis Across Incarnations","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1918-08-26","location":null,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/183/1918-08-26/p030","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRZ254","book_title":"Mysteries of the Sun and of the Threefold Man","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA183/English/LRZ254/19180826p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Das höhere Selbst hat nur einen Sinn, wenn man von ihm spricht gegenüber der Welt der höheren Hierarchien. Vom höheren Selbst zu sprechen, ohne auf die Welt Rücksicht zu nehmen, die da besteht aus den Geistern der Form und den Engeln, Erzengeln und so weiter, vom höheren Selbst zu sprechen, ohne auf diese Welt Rücksicht zu nehmen, bedeutet: man spricht von leeren Abstraktionen, bedeutet zugleich: man spricht nicht von demjenigen, was da lebt im Menschen zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt. Denn so wie wir hier mit Tieren, Pflanzen und Mineralien leben, so leben wir zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt mit den Reichen der höheren Hierarchien, von denen wir oftmals gesprochen haben. Nur wenn man sich nach und nach diesen Vorstellungen und Begriffen nähert, dann — wir werden davon erst vielleicht in acht Tagen sprechen -, dann kommt man zu einer Annäherung an so etwas, was Antwort geben kann auf die Frage: Warum sterben manche Menschen als junge Kinder, warum manche im höchsten Alter, andere dazwischen ?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-08-26/p033"}],"english":["GA 183/1918-08-26/p029","GA 183/1918-08-26/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":294,"en_words":309,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8236,"original_word_count":7984,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRZ254","book_title":"Mysteries of the Sun and of the Threefold Man","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA183/English/LRZ254/19180826p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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