{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 218/1922-12-07/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But you can see something else from what is presented here. What man is spiritually in his etheric body does not live in space, it lives in time. Now look at the physical organism, for example the eye: with it you see visible things. If you were to tear out your eye, you would no longer be able to see visible things. If you look at the spiritual human being, he is, so to speak, the whole stream that passes from life to life, living once in existence between death and a new birth, then in physical life on earth, then again in life between death and a new birth, and so on. That is a unity. People in ancient times were endowed with instinctive clairvoyance at birth, that is, a connection with the spiritual world through the forces of nature themselves, and this developed in them in such a way that they could take it with them again through death; but the knowledge of the spiritual was not allowed to cease. Nor must it disappear in the newer man. Man must acquire this knowledge of the spiritual here on earth, for he is a continuous stream on earth. If you have had an earthly life that knew nothing at all about the spiritual, then for your spiritual life it is as if you were to pluck out the eye of your physical body. For what you acquire here on earth as knowledge of the spiritual life belongs to you, it is your eye with which you later “see” between death and a new birth. And if you remain “dark” here on earth with regard to knowledge of the spiritual life, then after death you have no eye; then you walk in life between death and a new birth as if through a dark valley. For this eye you must have through what you have acquired here. You tear out the eye of the spirit by excluding knowledge of the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Human Experience in the Ethereal Cosmos","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-12-07","location":null,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/218/1922-12-07/p034","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA218/English/Singles/19221207p01.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/218/1922-12-07/p034"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/218/1922-12-07/p034","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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Die Menschen der alten Zeit bekamen in das Erdenleben ihr instinktives Hellsehen mit, das heißt einen Zusammenhang mit der geistigen Welt durch die Naturkräfte selbst, und das bildete sich bei ihnen so um, daß sie das auch wieder mitnehmen konnten durch den Tod; aber es durfte nicht das Wissen vom Geistigen aufhören. Beim neueren Menschen darf es auch nicht verschwinden. Der Mensch muß sich hier auf der Erde dieses Wissen vom Geistigen aneignen, denn er ist auf der Erde ein fortlaufender Strom. Wenn Sie ein Erdenleben hinter sich haben, das ganz und gar nichts vom Geistigen gewußt hat, so ist das für das geistige Leben gerade so, wie wenn Sie dem physischen Organismus das Auge ausreißen würden. Denn, was Sie sich hier auf der Erde als Wissen vom geistigen Leben erwerben, das gehört Ihnen an, das ist Ihr Auge, mit dem Sie später zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt «sehen». Und bleiben Sie hier auf der Erde «finster» in bezug auf das Wissen des geistigen Lebens, dann haben Sie nach dem Tode kein Auge; dann gehen Sie im Leben zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt wie durch ein finsteres Tal. Denn dieses Auge müssen Sie haben durch das, was Sie hier sich erworben haben. Sie reißen das Auge des Geistes aus, indem Sie das Wissen von der geistigen Welt ausschließen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":329,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/218/1922-12-07/p034"}],"english":["GA 218/1922-12-07/p034"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":329,"en_words":332,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9301,"original_word_count":9104,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA218/English/Singles/19221207p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 218/1922-12-07/p034"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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