{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-11/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here we see how foregoing events without doubt may be grasped quite naturally: to be born and be incorporated as a human being, birth and death, can be understood by outer natural science merely as acceptable precursors, manifestations, revelations of love and freedom. By developing soul-spiritual love out of our will forces, what are we actually accomplishing? We are creating a soul-spiritual after-image in us, within our skin, from which our entire being originates before we are conceived. Before our conception we live in the cosmos through the power of love. Gradually, in a kind of feeling-will memory of this cosmic life, comes the unfolding of love as a moral virtue during our life between birth and death. Like a refinement in the microcosm appears the virtue of love, which extends macrocosmically before our birth, and the awareness of our freedom appears through this which we carry in us as soul-spiritual during our lives between birth and death, which will work like natural forces throughout the cosmos, when we have gone through death's door. They are nothing other than the human echoes of cosmic forces, because every birth is connected with cosmic love, and all dying connected to cosmic freedom. We talk about all kinds of natural forces like light, warmth, electricity and so on, since natural science has celebrated her triumph; we however don't talk about those forces of nature or more adequately expressed, cosmic forces, which we as people in a physical existence control and drive out in the physical sensory existence again. The thing is, you can take physics, chemistry, the biological sciences and take that which are depicted as forces which constitutes the world. Out of these forces which constitute the world, you will understand everything which is not human, but people don't. For human beings to exist there must be freedom and love, despite what exists in the world like electricity, light, heat and so on. You come, when you enter into such an examination to really understand the human being, to concepts of nature beings, which are simultaneously moral concepts and principles of nature, and it doesn't go undecidedly to the one side without a relationship to the nature of moral world order or to the other side without a relationship with the morality of the order of nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Bridge Between Morality and Nature","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-11","location":null,"word_count":385,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-11/p019","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Bridge between Morality and Nature","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201211p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-11/p019"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-11/p019","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Und gewissermaßen wie eine gefühlsmäßig-willensmäßige Erinnerung an dieses kosmische Leben ist die Entfaltung der Liebe als einer moralischen Tugend während unseres Lebens zwischen Geburt und Tod. Wie eine Verfeinerung im Mikrokosmischen dessen, was ausgebreitet ist makrokosmisch vor unserer Geburt, erscheint uns die Tugend der Liebe, und das Bewußtsein unserer Freiheit erscheint uns dadurch, daß wir geistig-seelisch während unseres Lebens zwischen Geburt und Tod dasjenige in uns tragen, was wie ein Naturkraftwirken ganz im Kosmos wirken wird, wenn wir die Pforte des Todes durchschritten haben. Wir erleben Liebe und Freiheit zwischen Geburt und Tod. Sie sind nichts anderes als die menschlichen Widerklänge von kosmischen Kräften, denn mit aller Geburt hängt die kosmische Liebe zusammen, mit allem Sterben hängt die kosmische Freiheit zusammen. Wir reden, seitdem die Naturwissenschaften ihre 'Triumphe gefeiert haben, von allerlei Naturkräften, Licht, Wärme, Elektrizität und so weiter; wir reden aber nicht von denjenigen Naturkräften, oder besser gesagt Weltkräften, welche uns Menschen ins physisch-sinnliche Dasein führen und wiederum aus diesem physisch-sinnlichen Dasein herausführen. Denn die Sache liegt so: Nehmen Sie sich einmal die physikalisch-chemischen, die biologischen Wissenschaften, und nehmen Sie alles dasjenige, was Ihnen da geschildert wird an Kräften, welche die Welt konstituieren. Aus diesen Kräften, welche die Welt konstituieren, werden Sie verstehen können alles, was nicht Mensch ist auf der Welt, niemals aber den Menschen. Denn damit der Mensch da sein kann, muß außer dem, daß in der Welt Elektrizität, Licht, Wärme und so weiter wirkt, da sein Freiheit und Liebe. Man kommt, wenn man sich einer solchen Betrachtungsweise hingibt, indem man wirklich den Menschen begreifen lernt, zu Begriffen über das Naturwesen, die zu gleicher Zeit moralische Begriffe und Naturbegriffe sind, und es schwebt nicht auf der einen Seite ohne Zusammenhang mit der Natur die moralische Weltordnung, und auf der anderen Seite ohne Zusammenhang mit der Moralität die Naturordnung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":397,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-11/p016"}],"english":["GA 202/1920-12-11/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":397,"en_words":385,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4851,"original_word_count":4932,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Bridge between Morality and Nature","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201211p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-11/p016"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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