{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 198/1920-07-10/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is the effect of a true knowledge of the human being, of a spiritual realization of one's place in the cosmos. By answering these questions in terms of what he really recognizes in himself, in terms of what has entered from the cosmos into our inner being, the human being knows where he comes from, where he stands, and where he is going. Such knowledge is not like the knowledge that has gradually destroyed the culture of the West. Such knowledge has a different significance. This culture of the West has really been destroyed by its knowledge. Look back at the knowledge that people had until the middle of the 15th century. People today scoff at this knowledge. They consider it the childish knowledge of a childish humanity. They say to themselves: We have come so gloriously far in the present; only now do we have real chemistry, real physics, real biology, and so on. But there is a significant difference between the old knowledge, when it can only be properly understood in its truth and the rootless knowledge of the present. If you look into the old knowledge, as it existed until the middle of the 15th century, you will see: by appropriating elements of knowledge from the world, the human being always took something with him, through which he was connected to the world. Just consider: however cleverly you reflect on a tree and however much conceptual content you absorb into your soul about the tree, you are still aware that more lives in the tree than you can absorb with your ideas; the same applies to a flower and even to a crystal. If you look at the modern world, which has gradually become machine-like, then the human being is, I would say, standing in front of the object that has become completely transparent in terms of ideas. The machine we build, the mechanism we construct, we see through it. We know: the machine is built from these forces, in this and that combination. - Following the pattern of what man has built in technology, he has then also formed a world view and he now also imagines the universe as a large machine.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Thirteenth Lecture","site_heading":"Ideas and Growth Forces: Bridging Prenatal and Posthumous Existence","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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Die Menschen der Gegenwart spotten über dieses Wissen. Sie sehen es für das kindliche Wissen einer kindlichen Menschheit an. Sie sagen sich: Wir haben es so herrlich weit gebracht in der Gegenwart; erst jetzt haben wir eine richtige Chemie, eine richtige Physik, eine richtige Biologie und so weiter. — Aber es ist doch ein bedeutsamer Unterschied zwischen dem alten Wissen, wenn es nur richtig verstanden in seiner Wahrheit sich enthüllen kann, und dem wurzellosen Wissen der Gegenwart. Wenn Sie in das alte Wissen hineinschauen, wie es bis zur Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts vorhanden war, so werden Sie sehen: der Mensch nahm immer, indem er Wissenselemente aus der Welt sich aneignete, etwas mit, wodurch er mit der Welt zusammenhing. Bedenken Sie doch nur: Wenn Sie noch so gescheit nachdenken über einen Baum und noch so viel von Ideengehalt in Ihre Seele aufnehmen über den Baum, haben Sie doch das Bewußtsein, in dem Baume lebt noch mehr, als was Sie mit Ihren Ideen aufnehmen können; so in der Blume, so selbst im Kristall. Wenn Sie die moderne Welt ansehen, die allmählich ins Maschinenhafte übergegangen ist, da erst steht der Mensch, ich möchte sagen, vor dem ideell ganz durchsichtig gewordenen Objekte. Die Maschine, die wir aufbauen, der Mechanismus, den wir errichten, sie durchschauen wir. Wir wissen: Aus diesen Kräften, in dieser und jener Verbindung ist die Maschine aufgebaut. - Nach dem Muster dessen, was der Mensch in der Technik aufgebaut hat, hat er sich dann auch eine Weltanschauung geformt und er stellt sich ungefähr das Weltenall nun auch als eine große Maschinerie vor.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":366,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/198/1920-07-10/p020"}],"english":["GA 198/1920-07-10/p020"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":366,"en_words":368,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5786,"original_word_count":5526,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Healing Factors for the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA198/English/SOL2024/19200710p01.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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