{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 228/1923-07-27/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Moon not only mirrors sunlight, but also reflects everything that radiates upon it, although sunlight is by far the strongest. All the heavenly bodies in the universe send their rays toward the Moon, and the Moon, as a mirror of the universe, then radiates it all back in every direction. It can be said, therefore, that the universe is before us in a twofold aspect. It reveals itself directly on Earth, but also in what is radiated back by the Moon. The Sun's rays work with tremendous power in themselves, but also in their reflection from the Moon. Every other radiation in cosmic space is also reflected by the Moon. There is the manifest universe, and there is also its reflection from the Moon.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Spiritual Individualities of the Planetary System","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Nun ist der Mond nicht nur gewissermaßen der Spiegel des Sonnenhaften im Universum, sondern er ist überhaupt ein Spiegel für alles dasjenige, was strahlend auf ihn auftreffen kann, nur daß das Sonnenlicht dabei das allerstärkste ist. Aber alles, was an Weltenkörpern im Universum vorhanden ist, strahlt nach dem Monde, und der Mond strahlt wie ein Spiegel des Gesamtuniversums dieses Universum bildhaft nach allen Seiten wiederum zurück. So daß man sagen kann: Man hat das Universum eigentlich, wenn man es anschaut, doppelt vor sich, einmal, wie es in der Umwelt der Erde sich offenbart, und einmal, wie es zurückgestrahlt ist vom Monde. Die Sonnenstrahlen wirken mächtig. Sie wirken mächtig auch in ihrer Rückstrahlung vom Monde. Aber auch alles übrige, was im Universum räumlich strahlend sich offenbaren kann, wird vom Monde zurückgestrahlt, und man hat außer dem, was sich im Universum offenbart, noch diese Rückstrahlung des Universums vom Monde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":251,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-27/p008"}],"english":["GA 228/1923-07-27/p005","GA 228/1923-07-27/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":251,"en_words":263,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4321,"original_word_count":4457,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"John Riedel","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Individualities of Our Planetary System","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA228/English/SOL2024/19230727p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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