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Therefore you can see how impossible it is when a person virtually sets up a dogma that he need not concern himself with the transcendental existence here in earthly life. For we live rather in a time when, in the true sense of the word, the one who says to himself: Here, in life between birth and death, you must acquire the eye so that it is not dark for you in the spiritual world after death, and so that you can also experience the light that is around you, is also fulfilling his supersensible duty towards the 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":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/218/1922-12-07/p035","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/p035"},{"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/p035","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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Aber wie in einem finsteren Kerker wird es für die Seele sein, wenn wir uns hier, im Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod, nicht das Auge für das Leben in den geistigen Welten erworben haben. Daher können Sie sehen, wie unmöglich es ist, wenn der Mensch es geradezu als ein Dogma aufstellt, er brauche sich hier im Erdenleben um das übersinnliche Dasein nicht zu kümmern. Denn wir leben vielmehr in einer Zeit, wo im wahren Sinne des Wortes derjenige seine übersinnliche Pflicht gegenüber dem Weltenrund auch erfüllt, der sich sagt: Hier, im Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod, mußt du dir das Auge erwerben, damit es für dich in der geistigen Welt nach dem Tode nicht finster ist, und damit du das Licht, das dann um dich ist, auch erleben kannst.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/218/1922-12-07/p035"}],"english":["GA 218/1922-12-07/p035"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":230,"en_words":227,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"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/p035"],"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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