{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 197/1920-07-30/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It may seem highly improbable and paradoxical to modern minds but it is nevertheless true that the phenomena which surround us today, and the laws apparent in these phenomena, are not the outer consequence of material events that occurred three thousand years before the Mystery of Golgotha. They are the consequence of what went on inside the bodies of Egyptians, of Chaldeans and others three thousand years before the Mystery of Golgotha. Those inner events have become outer ones. The outside world of those times has vanished, disappeared. Human bodies hold the germ for a future that may be reckoned in thousands of years. It is possible to see this by considering the natural phenomena of today, drawing a conclusion that may be bold but nevertheless revealing. People talk about the properties of the element radium. To someone able to perceive the reality of the spirit this sometimes sounds like children talking about something adult minds have long since come to understand on the basis of different facts. Modern physicists know that the radium which existed on the earth's surface up to AD 140 has since disappeared and no longer is radium. The radium that is found today has only formed since AD 140. Physicists are actually teaching this now. These things present themselves to human minds to force them, as it were, finally to give up the erroneous ways of thinking which had to be pursued for centuries for the sake of human freedom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Spirit and Matter: Reversing Materialist Consciousness","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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In den Leibern der Menschen liegt der Keim für eine Zukunft, die schon nach Jahrtausenden berechnet werden kann. Das ist etwas, was schon aus den äußeren Naturerscheinungen heute vielleicht durch einen kühnen, aber doch durch einen Schluß erkannt werden kann. Die Menschen sprechen von den Eigenschaften des Radiums. Demjenigen, der die geistige Welt durchschaut, kommt dieses Sprechen manchmal so vor, wie wenn Kinder sprechen würden von demjenigen, was dem geistigen Erkennen des Erwachsenen längst aus andern Tatsachen heraus klar war. Die Physik weiß heute, daß das Radium, das auf der Erdoberfläche vorhanden war vor dem Jahre 140 nach Christi Geburt, heute verflogen ist, heute kein Radium mehr ist. Das Radium, das heute vorhanden ist, hat sich erst seit dem Jahre 140 nach Christi Geburt gebildet. Das sind Dinge, die heute schon die Physik lehrt, Dinge, die heute an den Menschen herantreten, um ihn gewissermaßen zu zwingen, endlich abzulassen von demjenigen, was er, als einen Irrtum eben, zur menschlichen Befreiung jahrhundertelang verfolgen mußte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/197/1920-07-30/p006"}],"english":["GA 197/1920-07-30/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":254,"en_words":245,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6265,"original_word_count":6008,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1987","book_title":"Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA197/English/RSP1987/19200730p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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