{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 233/1923-12-28/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"My dear friends, it is only too true that the very most important things in the history of human evolution are simply passed over in the materialistic external history of to-day. Of extraordinary importance for the understanding of the whole Greek character and culture is this fact: that in the Greek civilisation we find no more than a shadow-picture, a phantom of the old Divine Presence wherein man had contact with the super-sensible worlds, for man was already gradually emerging out of this Divinity and learning to make use of his own individual and personal spiritual faculties. Step by step we can see this taking place. In the dramas of Æschylus we may see placed before us in an artistic picture the feeling that yet remained to man of the old time of the Gods. Scarcely however has Sophocles come forward when man begins to tear himself away from this conscious sense of union with Divine-Spiritual existence. And then something else appears that is coupled with a name which from one point of view we cannot over-estimate—but of course there are many points of view to be considered.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Mysteries of the East, West, and of Ephesus","site_heading":"Ephesus: Bridge Between Eastern and Western Mysteries","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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Aber kaum kommt Sophokles, so reißt schon sozusagen der Mensch sich ab von diesem Sich-zusammen-Fühlen mit dem göttlich-geistigen Dasein. Und dann, dann tritt etwas ein, was an einen Namen geknüpft ist, der ganz gewiß nicht hoch genug zu schätzen ist von einem gewissen Gesichtspunkte aus; aber es gibt ja verschiedene Gesichtspunkte in der Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-28/p022"}],"english":["GA 233/1923-12-28/p025"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":162,"en_words":188,"ratio":1.16,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.15,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6034,"original_word_count":5250,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. 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