{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-16/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now a certain astronomical fact was observed even in the most ancient times. Many thousands of years before the Christian era, the Egyptians knew that after a period of 72 years the fixed stars in their apparent course gain one day on the Sun. It seems to us, does it not, that the fixed stars revolve and the Sun too revolves, but that the latter revolves more slowly, so that after 72 years the stars are appreciably ahead. This is the reason of the movement of the Vernal Point (the Spring Equinoctial point); namely, that the stars go faster. The Spring Equinox moves further and further away, the fixed star has altered its place in relation to the Sun. Briefly, the facts are that if we notice the path of a fixed star and notice the point where the Sun stands over it, we find that at the end of 72 years the star occupies the same position on the 30th December, while the Sun only reaches that point again on the 31st December. The Sun has lost a day. After a lapse of 25,920 years this loss is so great, that the Sun has described a complete revolution and once again is back upon the place we noted. We see therefore that in 72 years the Sun is *one day* behind the fixed stars. Now these 72 years are approximately the normal life period of Man, and they are composed of 25,920 days.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Four","site_heading":"The Breathing Cosmos: Lunar Rhythms and Spiritual Worlds","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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Viele tausend Jahre vor unserer Zeitrechnung war es den Ägyptern bekannt, daß nach 72 Jahren die Fixsterne in ihrer scheinbaren Bewegung der Sonne um einen Tag vorausgeeilt sind. Zunächst sieht es ja so aus, nicht wahr, daß die Fixsterne sich scheinbar drehen, die Sonne sich scheinbar dreht. Aber die Sonne dreht sich wesentlich langsamer als die Fixsterne, und nach 72 Jahren sind die Fixsterne schon ein Stück vorausgeeilt. Deshalb verschiebt sich ja der Frühlingspunkt, weil die Fixsterne vorauseilen. Wenn der Frühlingspunkt weiter und weiter rückt, dann müssen sich ja die Fixsterne gegenüber dem Stand der Sonne verschoben haben. Nun, die Sache ist so, daß nach 72 Jahren tatsächlich die Fixsterne der Sonne um einen Tag voraus sind. So findet man, daß nach 72 Jahren die Sterne Ende des 30. Dezember an einem bestimmten Punkte ankommen, die Sonne kommt erst Ende des 31. Dezember an demselben Punkte an. Sie ist also langsamer gegangen um einen Tag. Nach 25920 Jahren bleibt sie so weit zurück, daß der ganze Umkreis vollendet ist, daß sie wiederum an den Punkt zurückkommt, den wir vorher notiert haben. Nach 72 Jahren also ist die Sonne um einen Tag zurückgeblieben hinter den Fixsternen. Das ist aber eben ungefähr die normale Lebensdauer eines Menschen, das sind die 72 Jahre, die 25920 Tage sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-04-16/p023"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-04-16/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":228,"en_words":244,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5456,"original_word_count":5443,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA201/English/RSP1972/19200416p01.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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