{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is not only the guided human being who achieves something by allowing himself to be guided, but this guidance also means something for the guiding, leading beings, that they progress in their development. An angel, for example, is more after he has guided people for a while than he was before he started this guidance. Through his work in guiding, the angel also progresses - both the one who is a full angel and the one who has only half become one. Everyone progresses; everything is in constant development. But at each stage, entities remain behind. And now we look into the ancient Egyptian culture in such a way that we say: First there are the divine leaders, the angels, then the semi-divine leaders who did not quite reach the angelic level, and then there are humans who develop higher and higher. But certain of the superhumans, of the semi-divine leaders, remain behind again; that is, they do not lead in such a way that they express all their powers, [they] remain behind as angels or as half-angels during the ancient Egyptian cultural stage. So while men advance below, certain such entities remain above under the guidance of the dhyanic entities or angels - and likewise among the Luciferic entities. So when the Egyptian culture comes to an end and the Greco-Latin culture begins, there are leading, guiding entities from the Egyptian-Chaldean culture that have remained behind. However, they cannot use their powers now, because they are now replaced in the leadership of humanity by other angels or semi-angelic beings. This means, however, that they are also unable to continue their own development.","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":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p041","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. 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/246/1911-06-07/p041"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p041","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften","evidence_translation":"From transcripts that are in part fragmentary","evidence_source":"The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of \"fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen\". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Nicht allein der geführte Mensch erlangt etwas dadurch, dass er sich führen lässt, sondern auch bei den leitenden, führenden Wesenheiten bedeutet dieses Leiten etwas, dass sie weiterkommen in ihrer Entwicklung. Ein Engel zum Beispiel ist mehr, nachdem er die Menschen eine Zeit lang geführt hat, als er war, bevor er diese Führung angefangen hat. Durch seine Arbeit in der Führung kommt auch der Engel weiter - und zwar sowohl der, welcher ein voller Engel ist, als auch der, welcher es nur halb geworden ist. Alle kommen weiter; alles ist in fortwährender Entwicklung befindlich. Aber auf jeder Stufe bleiben wieder Wesenheiten zurück. Und jetzt sehen wir so in die alte ägyptische Kultur hinein, dass wir sagen: Da sind erstens die göttlichen Führer, die Engel, dann die halb-göttlichen Führer, welche die Engelstufe nicht ganz erreichten, und dann sind da Menschen, die sich immer höher und höher entwickeln. Aber gewisse von den Übermenschen, von den halb göttlichen Führern bleiben wieder zurück; das heißt: Sie führen nicht so, dass sie all ihre Kräfte zum Ausdruck bringen, [sie] bleiben als Engel oder als Halbengel während der alten ägyptischen Kulturstufe zurück. Während also die Menschen unten vorrücken, bleiben oben unter der Leitung der dhyanischen Wesenheiten oder Engel gewisse solcher Wesenheiten zurück - und unter den luziferischen Wesenheiten ebenso. Als also die ägyptische Kultur zu Ende geht und die griechisch-lateinische beginnt, sind zurückgebliebene leitende, führende Wesenheiten aus der ägyptisch-chaldäischen Kultur vorhanden. Diese können aber jetzt ihre Kräfte nicht anwenden; denn sie werden jetzt in der Führung der Menschheit von anderen Engeln oder halb engelhaften Wesenheiten ersetzt. Das heißt aber: Sie können dadurch auch ihre eigene Entwicklung nicht fortsetzen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":271,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p041"}],"english":["GA 246/1911-06-07/p041"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":271,"en_words":274,"ratio":1.01,"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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