{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 228/1923-09-14/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Human thinking since the fifteenth century has acquired a particular character which may have developed only slowly but has more or less already reached is culminating point. Yet this way of thinking, which represents the actual waking condition for modern man, is not really capable of giving him any satisfaction. A man can think, and that is the only luminous experience of his waking life. He can think, and that is the only means by which he can draw on his inner powers and establish the marvelous results of the sciences. Yet basically this modern thinking can give man no satisfaction for his inner yearnings. The fact is that he loses his own self in this modern thought. He does of course experience this thinking as the one clear element in his consciousness—much clearer, for instance, than his breathing or blood circulation, which remain obscure in the deeper regions of his consciousness. He feels that these also may contain some reality, but he sleeps through this reality, and it is only in his ideas and thinking that he is awake. But then, especially if he is disposed to a certain amount of self-observation, he comes to feel that although it is only in his thinking that he fulfils his inner being, yet his true self is lost. And I can give you two examples which will enable you—spiritually of course—to lay hands on this loss of self in thought.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Consciousness Evolution: From Druid Wisdom to Modern Thought","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1923-09-14","location":null,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/228/1923-09-14/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard","identified_edition":"RSP1966","book_title":"Man in the Past, Present, and Future; The Evolution of Consciousness","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA228/English/RSP1966/19230914p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"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/228/1923-09-14/p011"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/228/1923-09-14/p011","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. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-09-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 228/1923-09-14/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-09-14/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":425,"en_words":403,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 228/1923-09-14/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wir müssen uns nun klar sein, wie auch dasjenige, was wir in dieser Weise als die Grundzüge des gegenwärtigen Bewußtseins des Menschen beschreiben, in einer verhältnismäßig gar nicht so langen Zeit eine Entwickelung durchgemacht hat, eine Entwickelung, auf die man in der heutigen materialistischen Gegenwart nur nicht gerne hinweist. Aber man versteht Dinge, die sich erhalten haben als Urkunden des menschlichen Denkens schon aus den ersten christlichen Jahrhunderten, nicht mehr, wenn man nicht gewahr wird, daß dasjenige, was beim Denken in der damaligen Zeit im Innern des Menschen gelebt hat, etwas ganz anderes war, als was heute im Innern der Seele als Denken lebt. Und insbesondere darf hingewiesen werden darauf, daß es geradezu eine seelische Unwissenheit bedeutet, mit dem, was man heute anerzogen hat als sein Vorstellungsleben, heranzugehen, sagen wir, an ein solches Buch wie «Die Einteilung der Natur» von Scotus Eriugena aus dem 9. Jahrhundert, oder heranzugehen an die alten alchimistisch-chemischen Darstellungen. Mit dem Denken der heutigen Zeit versteht man gar nicht, was damals gemeint war. Man liest Worte, man versteht nicht, was damals gemeint war. Denn das menschliche Denken hat seit dem 15. Jahrhundert eben ein ganz bestimmtes Gepräge erhalten, und dieses Gepräge, trotzdem es sich langsam und allmählich entwickelt hat, ist verhältnismäßig gerade heute schon auf dem Höhepunkte angelangt. Dieses Denken, das den eigentlichen Wachzustand, wie ich auseinandergesetzt habe, im Leben des Menschen der Gegenwart darstellt, ist eigentlich ein solches, bei dem der Mensch der Gegenwart im Grunde genommen nicht froh werden kann. Der Mensch denkt, es ist das einzige von lichtvoller Klarheit das, was er wachend erlebt; der Mensch denkt, es ist das einzige, durch das er, aus seinem Innern heraus schöpfend, auch die wunderbarsten Resultate der Wissenschaften zusammensetzt. Aber der Mensch wird im Grunde genommen für sein inneres Sehnsuchtserleben an diesem gegenwärtigen Denken gar nicht froh. Denn eigentlich verliert sich der Mensch in diesem gegenwärtigen Denken. Er verliert sich so, daß er zwar dieses Denken als den einzigen klaren Inhalt erlebt, viel klarer als zum Beispiel die Blutzirkulation oder das Atmen. Die bleiben dunkel und unklar in unteren Regionen des Bewußstseins. Man fühlt, in ihnen lebt eine Realität, aber man verschläft eigentlich diese Realität und wacht nur im Vorstellen, im Denken. Aber dann kommt man darauf, gerade wenn man meinetwillen etwas veranlagt ist dazu, Selbstbesinnung zu üben: In dem Denken, das eigentlich das einzige ist, das dein inneres Leben erfüllt, verlierst du dich eigentlich. Und dieses Verlieren im Denken, man kann es an zwei Beziehungen, ich möchte sagen — natürlich ist das als geistiges Bild gemeint — mit Händen greifen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":425,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-09-14/p006"}],"english":["GA 228/1923-09-14/p010","GA 228/1923-09-14/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":425,"en_words":403,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6148,"original_word_count":6258,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E. H. Goddard","identified_edition":"RSP1966","book_title":"Man in the Past, Present, and Future; The Evolution of Consciousness","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA228/English/RSP1966/19230914p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 228/1923-09-14/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}