{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p058","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This special task - to create a balance between the principles of clairvoyance and initiation - once approached the leadership of mankind. It was necessary for humanity to receive guidance and direction in order to establish the right balance between clairvoyance and initiation. The question arises: When did this have to happen? It became necessary at the time when humanity was going through a crisis in relation to its higher cognition. In the time of the thirteenth century, around the year 1250, we have the age when people felt most closed off from the spiritual world. Then the most outstanding spirits, who strove for a certain higher knowledge, said: \"What our reason, our intellect, what [our knowledge] can find is limited to the world that surrounds us on the outside; we cannot reach a spiritual world with our rational human research and cognitive faculty; it must be given to us through revelation! Knowledge and faith are two separate areas! - There is a good reason why this was said at the time when scholasticism was flourishing; it was said because at that time humanity was most closed off from the spiritual world. Approximately the year 1250 is the time in which people during the Middle Ages had to come to draw the line between what can be believed and what can be recognized.","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":223,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p058","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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Notwendigerweise musste die Menschheit so etwas einmal in der Führung und Leitung bekommen, dass das richtige Gleichmaß zwischen Hellsehen und Einweihung hergestellt wurde. Da entsteht die Frage: Wann musste das geschehen? Das wurde notwendig in der Zeit, als die Menschheit eine Krisis durchmachte in Bezug auf ihr höheres Erkennen. In der Zeit des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, etwa um das Jahr 1250 herum, haben wir das Zeitalter, wo die Menschen sich am meisten abgeschlossen fühlten von der geistigen Welt. Da sagten die hervorragendsten Geister, die nach einem gewissen höheren Erkennen strebten: Was unsere Vernunft, unser Intellekt, was [unser Wissen] finden kann, ist beschränkt auf die Welt, die uns außen umgibt; wir können mit unserm vernünftigen menschlichen Forschen und Erkenntnisvermögen nicht eine geistige Welt erreichen; sie muss uns durch die Offenbarung gegeben werden! Wissen und Glauben sind zwei voneinander getrennte Gebiete! - Dass dies gesagt wurde in der Zeit, als die Scholastik blühte, hat seinen guten Grund; es wurde gesagt, weil damals eben die Menschheit am meisten vor der geistigen Welt abgeschlossen war. Ungefähr das Jahr 1250 ist die Zeit, in welcher die Menschen während des Mittelalters dazu kommen mussten, die Grenze zu ziehen zwischen dem, was man glauben kann und was man erkennen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p058"}],"english":["GA 246/1911-06-07/p058"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":227,"en_words":223,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","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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