{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 232/1923-12-01/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now this same conception applies in the case of something quite different. Everything that I have so far described is the result of the fact that the silica had already, at an even earlier time, been precipitated in the atmosphere as the wax-like substance of which I have spoken. But apart from this there was the albuminous atmosphere upon which the infinitely diverse forces of the Cosmos were working, those forces which modern science sees fit to ignore. Hence our modern knowledge is no real knowledge at all, because a great many happenings on Earth simply would not take place if they were not brought about by cosmic forces and influences. Since the modern scientists do not speak of or do not recognise these cosmic forces, there is no reality in what they say. They take no account of what is essentially quick with life. Even in the tiniest particle looked at through a microscope, cosmic forces, not only earthly forces, are working. And if these cosmic forces are not taken into account, there can be no reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Mineral, Plant And Animal Creation","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-12-01","location":null,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-12-01/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centres","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA232/English/RSP1972/19231201p01.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. 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/232/1923-12-01/p017"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-12-01/p017","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":"1923-12-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 232/1923-12-01/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/232/1923-12-01/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":387,"en_words":386,"ratio":1.0,"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 232/1923-12-01/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Und man muß noch etwas anderes sagen: Wenn man heute Mensch ist und eben durch die Verwandtschaft mit der Metallität der Erde sich zurückversetzt in jene Zeiten, dann ist es einem so, als ob das alles zu einem selber gehörte, als ob man etwas zu tun hätte mit dem, was dazumal in der Atmosphäre ergrünte und vergrünte. Wirklich, wenn man sich heute an seine eigene Kindheit erinnert, so ist das die Erinnerung an eine kurze Spanne Zeit. Aber wenn Sie sich an einen Schmerz, den Sie in der Kindheit durchgemacht haben, erinnern, so ist das etwas, was zu Ihnen gehört. So wird in diesem durch die Metallität der Erde angeregten kosmischen Zurückerinnern dieser Vorgang des Ergrünens und Vergrünens wie etwas, das zu Ihnen selbst gehört. Man war dazumal schon als Mensch mit der Erde, die in dieser wäßrigen Eiweiß-Atmosphäre lebte, verbunden, aber so, daß man als Mensch noch ganz geistig war. Aber man drückt ein Richtiges aus, wenn man sagt— es ist so, daß man zugleich die Vorstellung gewinnen muß -: Diese Pflanzen, die man da in der Atmosphäre sieht, die sind für die damalige Zeit Abscheidungen, Absonderungen des Menschlichen. Der Mensch setzt das aus seiner Wesenheit, die noch mit der ganzen Erde eines ist, heraus. Und er muß diese Vorstellung noch für etwas ganz anderes haben, was er da heraussetzt. Es geschieht nämlich auch folgendes. Alles, was ich bisher beschrieben habe, das ist dadurch bewirkt, daß schon früher das Kieselsäureartige in der Atmosphäre abgesetzt ist in der Wachsform, von der ich gesprochen habe. Aber sonst ist ja überall diese Eiweiß-Atmosphäre da. Auf die wirkt der Kosmos; auf die wirken die unendlich mannigfaltigen Kräfte, die vom Kosmos überall auf die Erde niederstrahlen, jene Kräfte, von denen unsere heutige Erkenntnis gar nichts wissen will. Daher ist unsere heutige Erkenntnis eben gar keine wirkliche Erkenntnis, weil das Mannigfaltigste, was auf der Erde vorgeht, eben nicht vorgehen würde, wenn es nicht überall von kosmischen Impulsen und kosmischen Kräften bewirkt wäre. Indem nun der heutige Gelehrte gar nicht von diesen kosmischen Kräften spricht, spricht er überhaupt nicht von der Wirklichkeit. Er nimmt ja nirgends Rücksicht auf dasjenige, was eigentlich lebt. Selbst in dem kleinsten Präparat, das man durch irgendein Mikroskop ansieht, leben nicht nur irdische, leben kosmische Kräfte. Und ohne daß man auf diese Rücksicht nimmt, hat man nicht die Wirklichkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":387,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/232/1923-12-01/p018"}],"english":["GA 232/1923-12-01/p016","GA 232/1923-12-01/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":387,"en_words":386,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.89,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4960,"original_word_count":5577,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centres","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA232/English/RSP1972/19231201p01.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. 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 232/1923-12-01/p018"],"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."}}