{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 266b/1911-10-14/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we devote ourselves to the facts of occult research brought to us through theosophy, what are we actually doing? What is it that we are taking in? It is nothing other than the thoughts of the Deity, which have existed from the beginning and according to which all things have come into being, the archetypes of everything that has come into existence. If we could do nothing but take in the thoughts of the Deity with our intellect, it would be merely sober reflection. We would think the truths with our intellect, but it would leave us cold. It would be similar to the feeling we would have if we were standing on a high, icy mountain, where no warmth from the world could reach the summit. This is what would happen to our souls if we could only take in the occult facts that are the thoughts of God with our intellect. In the past, in the Lemurian epoch, people took these things in, gave themselves completely to the gods, and the warmth of the spiritual world permeated them, and they felt deeply connected to the spiritual world. In the course of time, intellectual understanding became more and more sober, and feeling became colder and colder. And at the time of the mystery of Golgotha, the soul was already permeated with an icy chill. But at the moment when Christ left the Christ bearer on the cross and gave himself up to the world, he burned through the coldness of the spirit with his holy fire and thereby transformed the spirit into the Holy Spirit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Maya, Spiritual Perception, and Esoteric Development","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1911-10-14","location":null,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/266b/1911-10-14/p016","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Esoteric Lessons 1910–1912","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA266II/English/SOL2025/19111014e02.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":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/266b/1911-10-14/p016"}],"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":"Gedächtnisaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmern","evidence_translation":"Participants' records written from memory","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"no_paragraph_pairing","note":"No paragraph pairing exists for this paragraph, so no German text is given. The German paragraph of the same number is a different passage or an unestablished one. Read the German unit (german_unit.fetch_unit) and find the place by its content.","german_unit":{"lang":"de","edition":"original","unit_locus":"GA 266b/1911-10-14","paragraph_count":14,"fetch_unit":{"ga":"266b","lecture":"1911-10-14","lang":"de","edition":"original"},"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/266b/1911-10-14","json_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/ga/266b/1911-10-14?lang=de"},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5218,"original_word_count":5007,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Esoteric Lessons 1910–1912","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA266II/English/SOL2025/19111014e02.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."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}