{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-05-23/p002","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"My dear Friends, what I should like to bring to you now will have to be said—as has everything that I have had to say recently about Anthroposophy—with a certain undertone called forth by the painful event which befell our work and our Society on last New Year's Eve: the *Goetheanum* in Dornach, for the time being, is no more; it was consumed by flames in the night before the New Year. And all who witnessed the destruction in this one night of the work of ten long years, accomplished by so many of our friends, and performed by them with complete devotion—all who have loved this Goetheanum very much, just because of this work, and because of what the Goetheanum was to us, will of necessity be weighed down by the thought that we no longer have this particular outer sign of Anthroposophical activity. For, even if some other building for our work shall arise on the same site—which should by all means occur—owing to the trying circumstances of the present time it can, of course, never be the old Goetheanum. Therefore, behind all that I have had to say since those days there actually stands in the background the fearful glow of the flames, which in such a heart-rending way interrupted the development of all our work. Since this outer sign has vanished, we must dedicate ourselves all the more to laying hold of the inner forces and inner realities of the Anthroposophical Movement and of what is connected with it for the entire evolution of humanity. Let me begin then with a sort of consideration of the nature of the human being. I have presented very much of this kind here in your midst, and I should like now to consider again one phase from a certain point of view.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Pneumatosophy: The Riddles of the Inner Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-23","location":null,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-05-23/p002","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Frances E. 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Und alle die, welche mit dieser einen Nacht die zehnjährige, lange Arbeit zerstört sahen, die ausgegangen ist von so vielen unserer Freunde, die in hingebungsvoller Weise diese Arbeit geleistet haben, alle, die aus dieser Arbeit und aus dem, was uns das Goetheanum war, dieses Goetheanum sehr lieb gehabt haben, die werden unter diesem Eindruck stehen müssen, daß wir dieses äußere Zeichen anthroposophischen Wirkens nicht mehr haben. Denn wenn auch — was ja durchaus sein sollte — irgendein Bau für unsere Sache an derselben Stätte wiederum entstehen wird: das alte Goetheanum kann es ja unter dem Einfluß der schwierigen Zeitverhältnisse selbstverständlich nicht mehr werden. So steht denn eigentlich im Hintergrunde hinter alledem, was ich seit jenen Tagen zu sagen habe, die furchtbare Glut der Flammen, die in einer so herzzerreißenden Weise eingriffen in die Entwickelung unserer ganzen Sache. Wir müssen uns da um so mehr, als dieses äußere Zeichen dahin ist, widmen dem Ergreifen der inneren Kräfte und inneren Wesenhaftigkeiten der anthroposophischen Bewegung und desjenigen, was mit ihr für die ganze Entwickelung der Menschheit zusammenhängt. So lassen Sie mich denn auch zunächst mit einer Art Betrachtung über das Wesen des Menschen beginnen. Ich habe solche viele hier in Ihrer Mitte angestellt und möchte nun heute wiederum eine solche von einem gewissen Gesichtspunkte aus anstellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-05-23/p002"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-05-23/p002"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":278,"en_words":303,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9860,"original_word_count":9624,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Frances E. 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