{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-04-09/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I had a teacher—I have also spoken of him in my autobiography—who was a really excellent geometrician. At a certain period in my fife he began to interest me very deeply. There was something absolutely original about him, a one-sidedness that amounted almost to genius; he had other characteristics as well, but his geometrical talent provided no pointer to his earlier incarnation. This really first-class constructive geometrician had a certain external peculiarity—a club-foot. Now investigations which lead over from one incarnation into another very often reveal that everything connected in the one incarnation with the development of the legs is connected, in another life, with the development of the head. A remarkable metamorphosis takes place of the inner forces which in one life are those of the limb-system and in another, those of the head-system.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Reincarnation and Karma in Historical Evolution","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":"1924-04-09","location":null,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-04-09/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1971","book_title":"Karmic Relationships VI","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA240/English/RSP1971/19240409p01.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/240/1924-04-09/p027"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-04-09/p027","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":"1924-04-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 240/1924-04-09/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-04-09/p019"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-04-09/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-04-09/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 240/1924-04-09/p020"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":267,"en_words":250,"ratio":0.94,"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 240/1924-04-09/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Was ich Ihnen so sage, ist keine Konstruktion. Denn diese Dinge werden wahrhaftig nicht gefunden auf die Art, daß man spekuliert, sondern können nur gefunden werden, wenn man sich ganz innerlich mit den entsprechenden Geistesentitäten verbindet und mit inspirierter Forschung aus dem einen Erdenleben ins andere Erdenleben hinüber den Weg sucht. Und so ist überhaupt, meine lieben Freunde, vieles von dem Arabismus durch die Verkörperung der Seelen in wiederholten Erdenleben in die neue Zeit herübergekommen. Es handelt sich nur darum, daß man niemals den Sinn solcher Forschung mißversteht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":88,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-04-09/p019"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-04-09/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Ich sagte Ihnen, daß es sich nicht darum handelt, daß man dasjenige, was man gewöhnlich im materialistischen Leben für bedeutend hält, verfolgt. Da kommt nicht viel dabei heraus. Ich will Ihnen ein Beispiel dafür anführen. Ich hatte einen Lehrer - ich habe auch von ihm in meinem Lebensgang gesprochen -, der ein ausgezeichneter Geometrielehrer war. In einem gewissen Lebensalter fing er an, mich tief zu interessieren. Er hatte etwas Eigentümliches, eine geniale Einseitigkeit, hatte sonstige Eigentümlichkeiten, und durch den Inhalt seiner Seele in bezug auf die Geometrie konnte man den Weg zu seiner früheren Inkarnation nicht finden. Aber dieser im Konstruieren so ausgezeichnete Geometer hatte eine äußerliche Eigentümlichkeit: Er hatte einen Klumpfuß. Nun zeigt sich sehr häufig, wenn man solche Untersuchungen anstellt, die hinüberführen von einem Erdenleben in das andere, daß in der Tat alles dasjenige, was in dem einen Erdenleben mit der Entwickelung der Beine zusammenhängt, in einem anderen Erdenleben mit der Entwickelung des Hauptes zusammenhängt. Da geschieht eine merkwürdige Metamorphose mit den inneren Kräften, wie sie das eine Mal das Gliedmaßensystem konstituieren, das andere Mal das Hauptsystem.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-04-09/p020"}],"english":["GA 240/1924-04-09/p026","GA 240/1924-04-09/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":267,"en_words":250,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 240/1924-04-09/p020"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5891,"original_word_count":5993,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1971","book_title":"Karmic Relationships VI","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA240/English/RSP1971/19240409p01.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 240/1924-04-09/p019","GA 240/1924-04-09/p020"],"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."}}