{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 228/1923-07-27/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The planet Venus is again different. In a certain way, I could say, Venus repels, wards off the whole universe. She is demure, prudish, aloof concerning the universe; she does not wish to know anything about the universe. She regards any submission to the universe, I might say, any external universal exposure and submission, as if it would cause her maiden purity, her virginity, to be lost. She is deeply shocked when any impression from the external universe attempts to approach her. She has no desire for the universe and rejects every dancing- partner – it is very difficult to express these things, because the circumstances and conditions have to be described in terms of earthly language –. On the other hand, Venus is highly responsive to everything that comes from the Earth. The Earth is, so to speak, her lover. Whereas the Moon reflects the whole surrounding universe, Venus reflects nothing at all of the universe, and wants to know nothing of it, but she lovingly reflects whatever comes from the Earth. If we are able to glimpse the mysteries of Venus with the eyes of soul, the whole Earth with all of her soulful secrets is there before us once again.","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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Die Venus ist in einer gewissen Beziehung - ja, wie soll ich mich ausdrücken? - abweisend gegen das ganze Universum. Sie ist spröde gegen das Universum, sie will nichts wissen vom Universum. Sie betrachtet das Universum so, daß, wenn sie sich ihm aussetzen würde, sie dadurch, gerade durch das äußere Universum, ich möchte sagen, ihre Jungfräulichkeit verlieren würde. Sie ist furchtbar schockiert, wenn irgendein Eindruck aus dem äußeren Universum an sie herankommen will. Sie mag nicht das Universum, weist jeden Tänzer aus dem äußeren Universum ab. Das ist schwierig auszudrücken, weil natürlich die Verhältnisse in der Erdensprache ausgedrückt werden müssen, aber es ist eben so. Dagegen ist sie ungeheuer empfänglich für alles das, was gerade von der Erde kommt. Die Erde ist wirklich der Liebhaber der Venus in einem gewissen Sinne. Während der Mond ringsherum das ganze Universum spiegelt, spiegelt die Venus nichts von dem Universum, sie will nichts wissen von dem Universum, aber sie spiegelt liebevoll alles zurück, was von der Erde kommt. Man hat die ganze Erde mit allen ihren seelischen Geheimnissen noch einmal, wenn man mit dem Seelenauge die Geheimnisse der Venus belauscht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-27/p026"}],"english":["GA 228/1923-07-27/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":201,"en_words":203,"ratio":1.01,"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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