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Man has thereby become ripe for reflection upon his own spiritual being. Hitherto he did not penetrate to these depths of his own nature. He saw in himself as it were a drop out of the sea of cosmic spirituality, a drop that has separated itself off for the time of this earthly life, only to unite itself again when the earthly life is over.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":145,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/26/l02/p003","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l07","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 26/l07/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/26/l07/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 26/l07/p002"],"length_check":{"de_words":120,"en_words":145,"ratio":1.21,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Since this inspiration has ceased and man now forms his thoughts from his own activity, he is referred to the perception of the senses to find a content for these thoughts. Thus was man obliged to fill with material content the spirituality that he had won. He fell into the materialistic outlook in the very epoch of time that brought his own spiritual being a stage higher in development.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/26/l02/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l07","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 26/l07/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/26/l07/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":151,"en_words":168,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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For a certain length of time man has filled his own spirit with the material side of Nature; he is to fill it again with cosmic content consisting of a spirituality that is his very own.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/26/l02/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l07","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 26/l07/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/26/l07/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":106,"en_words":126,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Er sah in sich gewissermaßen den Tropfen, der aus dem Meere der kosmischen Geistigkeit sich für das Erdenleben abgetrennt hat, um sich nach demselben wieder mit ihm zu vereinigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/26/l07/p002"},{"locus":"GA 26/l07/p003","passage_number":3,"text":"Es ist die im Menschen stattfindende Gedankenbildung ein Fortschritt in der menschlichen Selbsterkenntnis. Im Übersinnlichen angeschaut, stellt sich die Sache so dar: Die geistigen Mächte, die man mit dem Michael-Namen bezeichnen kann, verwalteten im geistigen Kosmos die Ideen. Der Mensch erlebte diese Ideen, indem er mit seiner Seele an dem Leben der Michael-Welt teilnahm. Dieses Erleben ist nun sein eigenes geworden. Dadurch ist eine zeitweilige Trennung des Menschen von der Michael-Welt eingetreten. Mit den inspirierten Gedanken der Vorzeit empfing der Mensch zugleich die geistigen Weltinhalte. Indem diese Inspiration aufhörte und der Mensch in eigener Tätigkeit die Gedanken bildet, ist er auf die Anschauung der Sinne verwiesen, um für diese Gedanken einen Inhalt zu haben. So mußte der Mensch zunächst die errungene eigene Geistigkeit mit materiellem Inhalt erfüllen. Er fiel in die materialistische Anschauung in dem Zeitalter, das sein eigenes geistiges Wesen auf eine Stufe brachte, die höher ist als die vorangehenden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/26/l07/p003"},{"locus":"GA 26/l07/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Das kann leicht verkannt werden; man kann den «Fall» in den Materialismus nur allein beachten, und dann über ihn traurig sein. 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