{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"However, it is now good to get a somewhat more precise mental image of the inner nature of these beings. I don't know whether you are aware that one word has been much abused in recent times, the word “superhuman”; I don't know whether it has happened here in the north as it has in Germany. If one could truly speak of “superhumans”, then it was these beings who were already human beings during the lunar period, the planetary predecessor period of our earth, and who have now outgrown humanity, have grown so much that a human body is no longer suitable for their development and their constitution. They could therefore only appear to clairvoyant humans in an etheric body. Thus they appeared, descended and reigned on earth even in the post-Atlantean times. What were they themselves like? It is best to describe a little of the spiritual nature of these beings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-06-07","location":null,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110607s01.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. 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Ich weiß nicht, ob Ihnen bekannt ist, dass man in der letzten Zeit mit einem Worte viel Missbrauch getrieben hat, mit dem Worte «Übermensch»; ich weiß nicht, ob es hier im Norden auch so geschehen ist wie in Deutschland. Wenn man wahrhaft von «Übermenschen» sprechen dürfte, so waren es diese Wesenheiten, die also schon während der Mondenzeit, der planetarischen Vorgängerzeit unserer Erde, Menschen waren und jetzt über die Menschheit hinausgewachsen sind, so hinausgewachsen sind, dass ein menschlicher Leib für ihre Entwicklung und ihre Beschaffenheit gar nicht mehr taugt. Sie konnten daher nur in einem ätherischen Leibe den hellsehenden Menschen erscheinen. So erschienen sie, stiegen herunter und regierten selbst noch in den nachatlantischen Zeiten auf der Erde. Wie waren sie nun selbst beschaffen? Da ist es am besten, man schildert ein wenig das Seelische dieser Wesenheiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p011"}],"english":["GA 246/1911-06-07/p011"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":154,"en_words":152,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7602,"original_word_count":7380,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110607s01.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. 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