{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 205/1921-07-02/p044","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The nineteenth century erected a barrier against this knowledge, and this barrier is called: *the law of the conservation of energy*. This law carries forward the forces of man's environment; but all these will dissolve and disappear. Only that which arises within humanity itself can create the future. The law of the conservation of energy is the most false imaginable. In reality its result is simply to make mankind a fifth wheel in the creative process of the cosmos. Not the statement of the law of the conservation of energy is correct, but that other saying: *Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away*. These two are in diametrical contrast; and it is simply thoughtlessness when today certain members of this or that positive denomination wish to be believers in the Bible and, at the same time, adherents of the theories of modern physics. This is sheer dishonesty which claims today to be something culturally creative. This dishonesty must be driven from the field of creative culture—which it actually opposes—if we are to emerge from these forces of decline into ascending powers.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-07-02","location":null,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/205/1921-07-02/p044","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"AP1946","book_title":"Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Psych/English/AP1946/19210702p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","note":"rsarchive's lecture list spells the credit 'Mary Laird-Brown'; the lecture pages of this edition print 'May Laird-Brown', which is served.","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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Das Gesetz von der Erhaltung der Energie setzt eben die um den Menschen herumliegenden Kräfte fort. Das wird aber alles vergehen, verschwinden. Und dasjenige, was im Menschen erst entsteht, das bildet Zukunft. Das Gesetz von der Erhaltung der Energie ist das Falscheste, das man sich denken kann. In Wirklichkeit aufgefaßt heißt das nichts anderes, als eben den Menschen zum fünften Rad im Weltgeschehen zu machen. Aber nicht das Wort von der Erhaltung der Energie ist richtig, sondern das andere Wort: «Himmel und Erde werden vergehen, aber meine Worte werden nicht vergehen.» Das ist das richtige Wort. Nur stehen diese zwei Worte in diametralem Gegensatz. Und nichts weiter als Gedankenlosigkeit ist es, daß heute gewisse Anhänger von diesen oder jenen positiven Bekenntnissen Bibelgläubige und zugleich Anhänger der theoretischen Physik sein wollen. Das ist nichts als eine Unehrlichkeit, die aber heute kulturschöpferisch auftritt, und diese Unehrlichkeit muß aus dem Kulturschöpferischen was aber eigentlich ein Antischöpferisches ist — heraus, wenn wir aus Niedergangskräften in Aufgangskräfte hineinkommen wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/205/1921-07-02/p028"}],"english":["GA 205/1921-07-02/p044"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":185,"en_words":187,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6018,"original_word_count":6058,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"AP1946","book_title":"Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Psych/English/AP1946/19210702p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","note":"rsarchive's lecture list spells the credit 'Mary Laird-Brown'; the lecture pages of this edition print 'May Laird-Brown', which is served.","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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