{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 243/1924-08-18/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You will forgive me if, at this point, I introduce something from direct personal experience. In this case, the personal experience is entirely objective. The epoch preceding our own was the age of Goethe and for decades I was engaged in the study of his works. I particularly wanted to approach Goethe in the first place through his scientific writings and through natural science in general. Only in later years did the need arise to have direct contact with him as a spiritual being in the spiritual world. But it was first necessary to experience him after his death in his total relationship to the Cosmos as a stellar being, so to speak, not as an individual personality. On the other hand, when we wish to make spiritual contact with a personality such as Brunetto Latini, or with those who were concerned with the study of nature in that epoch, we feel an immediate need to exchange ideas and opinions with them personally, in intimate spiritual communion.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Knowledge of the World of Stars. Differentiation of the Historical Epochs of Mankind and their Spiritual Background","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-08-18","location":null,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/243/1924-08-18/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Das war nicht das erste. Das erste war, ihn sozusagen als Sternenmenschen nach seinem Tode im ganzen Weltenzusammenhang, im kosmischen Zusammenhang zu haben, nicht persönlich-individuell.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-18/p010"},{"locus":"GA 243/1924-08-18/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Wenn man so jemanden dagegen wie den Brunetto Latini, oder namentlich diejenigen Menschen, die sich mit der Naturerkenntnis in diesem selben Zeitalter beschäftigt haben, in dem der Brunetto Latini gelebt hat, in der geistigen Welt aufsuchen will, dann hat man unmittelbar das Bedürfnis, mit ihnen Meinungen, Anschauungen austauschen zu können in ganz persönlichem Seelenverkehre. Das ist eben ein bedeutsamer Unterschied. Und dieser Unterschied hängt damit zusammen, daß die Zeitalter in ihrer inneren geistigen Struktur durchaus voneinander verschieden sind. Heute leben wir in einem Zeitalter, in dem es dem Menschen, der ganzen Menschheit besonders vorgesetzt ist, geistige Tatsachen unmittelbar als geistige Tatsachen zu ergreifen; das heißt, die Initiationswissenschaft, die hineinschaut in das geistige Leben, unmittelbar äußerlich als Menschenerkenntnis zu verbreiten. Dieses Zeitalter, das ja eben erst angefangen hat, darf nicht ablaufen, ohne daß in rein geistiger Weise diejenigen, die man gebildete Menschen nennt, die hauptsächlichsten zu erreichenden geistigen Tatsachen, also nicht die irdischen, nicht die physisch-sinnlichen Tatsachen, sondern diese geistigen Tatsachen wirklich erkennen. Es muß also von jetzt ab für dieses Zeitalter ein energisches Vertreten von einer unmittelbar in die geistige Welt hineinleuchtenden Geisteswissenschaft vorhanden sein, sonst würde die Menschheit auf Erden ihre Aufgabe in dem ihr vorgesetzten Sinne gar nicht erreichen können. Wir müssen in ein spirituelles Zeitalter immer mehr und mehr einlaufen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-18/p011"}],"english":["GA 243/1924-08-18/p011","GA 243/1924-08-18/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":341,"en_words":304,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 243/1924-08-18/p010","GA 243/1924-08-18/p011"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5887,"original_word_count":6776,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. 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