{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 227/1923-08-29/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We then look back to an age when man was still associated with the Sun Beings, with the inhabitants of the Sun, before in the course of cosmic evolution the Sun separated from the Earth. This does not mean looking back to an age when, as described in *Occult Science*, the Earth itself went through its Sun period—the second age in the evolution of the Earth—but to the recapitulation in earthly existence of that cosmic age. But this recapitulation does come into view. And so a man's knowledge, when supplemented by what he is able to experience between death and a new birth, becomes cosmological knowledge. Earth-evolution advances through repeated stages, in conjunction with the results of human deeds carried out together with higher Beings. The Earth's past, in its connection with the whole planetary system—Sun, Moon, and all the planets dependent on them—becomes apparent in the deeds of men. Out of it a man shapes the part of the future for which he is responsible—his next earthly life. At the same time, however, he is involved in the preparation of future worlds, the Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan existences, for into each of these in turn the Earth existence will eventually be transformed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"11. Experience of the World's Past","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-08-29","location":null,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/227/1923-08-29/p032","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Violet E. 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Und es wird gewissermaßen, wenn sich die Menschenerkenntnis durch das, was der Mensch erleben kann zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, ergänzt, die Menschheitserkenntnis zur kosmologischen Erkenntnis. Dasjenige, was Erdenentwickelung war, steigt, verbunden mit den Ergebnissen der wiederholten Erdendaseinsstufen in den menschlichen Taten, die er mit höheren Wesen zusammen vollbringt, auf. Die Vergangenheit der Erde in ihrem Zusammenhange mit dem ganzen Planetensystem, Sonne, Mond und den von ihnen abhängigen Planeten, tritt in den Taten der Menschen wiederum auf. Und aus dem, was da auftritt, formt sich der Mensch dann das Stück Zukunft, das er zunächst zu formen hat, sein nächstes Erdendasein. Aber er ist zu gleicher Zeit verwoben in das Vorbereiten all derjenigen Zukunft, die für die Welt vorbereitet wird: Jupiterdasein, Venusdasein, Vulkandasein, in die das Erdendasein übergehen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-29/p035"}],"english":["GA 227/1923-08-29/p032"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":212,"en_words":203,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5237,"original_word_count":5681,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Violet E. 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