{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-08-01/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now by following this idea to its conclusion, a world-conception of a very definite shade or colouring had gradually been evolved. This kind of world-conception said in effect: Man has become sinful (and to become sinful means to fall from one's original height). And since man has in fact become sinful, he cannot see the world as he would have been able to see it in his sinless condition before the Fall. Man, therefore, sees the world darkly and dimly. He sees it not in its true form. He sees it with many illusions and false fantasies. Above all, he sees what he sees in outer Nature, not as it really is or with its true spiritual background. He sees it in a material form which is not there in reality at all. Such was the meaning of the saying: Man is sinful. Such was its meaning in ancient time and—in the traditions—frequently even to this day. Thus upon earth too, those who had kept the tradition of the Mysteries continued to teach: Man cannot perceive the world, he cannot feel in the world, he cannot act in the world as he would think and feel and act if he had not become sinful,—if he had not descended from the height for which his Gods originally predestined him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VIII. Ahriman's Fight Against the Michael Principle — The Message of Michael","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-08-01","location":null,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-08-01/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. 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Er sieht gerade das, was er draußen in der Natur schaut, sieht nicht, wie es ist mit seinem geistigen Hintergrunde; er sieht es in materieller Form, die in Wirklichkeit gar nicht da ist. Das heißt, der Mensch ist sündhaft für die Anschauung der alten Zeiten und für die Tradition vielfach noch heute. So daß also auf der Erde von denjenigen auch, die die Tradition der Mysterien bewahrten, durchaus gelehrt wurde: Der Mensch kann die Welt nicht so anschauen, er kann in der Welt nicht so fühlen, er kann in der Welt nicht so tun, wie er denken, fühlen und tun würde, wenn er nicht sündhaft geworden wäre, das heißt, wenn er von der Höhe, zu der ihn ja die zu ihm gehörigen Götter ursprünglich bestimmt haben, nicht heruntergefallen wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":214,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-08-01/p017"}],"english":["GA 237/1924-08-01/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":214,"en_words":218,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4872,"original_word_count":4510,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. 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