{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 229/1923-10-13/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we open our souls to the impressions which may come to us from the content of these pictures, then at the same time there will come to us much that has been experienced in the course of human evolution as an echo of old, instinctive clairvoyance; to-day this is sometimes treated historically, but fundamentally it is not understood. Real poets and spiritually inspired men lay hold of these often wonderful voices which sound from the traditions of the past, and make use of them just when they wish to express their highest and greatest conceptions. But even then they are very little understood. So in the first part of *Faust* there rings out a wonderful saying which is scarcely at all understood, though it is quoted often enough. It occurs when Faust, having opened the book of Nostradamus, comes upon the sign of the Macrocosm:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. The Working Together of the Four Archangels","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-10-13","location":null,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/229/1923-10-13/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Charles Davy and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1968","book_title":"Four Seasons and the Archangels","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA229/English/RSP1968/19231013p01.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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Wenn man die Seele aufschließt all den Eindrücken, die über einen kommen können aus dem Anblicke desjenigen, was in diesen vier Gestalten liegt, dann stellt sich zu gleicher Zeit vor die Seele manches hin, was im Laufe der Menschheitsentwickelung empfunden worden ist, empfunden worden ist als ein Nachklang alter instinktiver hellseherischer Schauungen, und was eigentlich heute zuweilen nur historisch angeführt wird, aber im Grunde genommen nicht verstanden wird. In der Empfindung greifen dann diese oft wunderbaren Stimmen, die traditionell .herüberklingen aus den Zeiten, wirkliche Dichter oder Geistesmenschen auf und gebrauchen sie, gebrauchen sie gerade dann, wenn sie das Höchste, das Größte ausdrücken wollen. Aber eigentlich finden sie auch damit recht wenig Verständnis. So klingt in einer ganz wunderbaren Weise aus dem ersten Teil des «Faust» ein Wort heraus, das oftmals zitiert wird, von dem man aber findet, daß es kaum wirklich verstanden wird. Es ist das Wort, das ertönt im «Faust», nachdem Faust das Buch des Nostradamus aufgeschlagen hat, das Zeichen des Makrokosmos erblickt und dann in die Worte ausbricht:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/229/1923-10-13/p003"},{"locus":"GA 229/1923-10-13/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"> Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt,  \n> Eins in dem andern wirkt und lebt!  \n> Wie Himmelskräfte auf und nieder steigen  \n> Und sich die goldnen Eimer reichen,  \n> Mit segenduftenden Schwingen  \n> Vom Himmel durch die Erde dringen,  \n> Harmonisch all das All durchklingen!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":46,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/229/1923-10-13/p004"}],"english":["GA 229/1923-10-13/p004","GA 229/1923-10-13/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":237,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5041,"original_word_count":5029,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy and Dorothy S. 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