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He should strive for the state of repose midway between the beats, midway between the not-reaching and the losing himself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-01-19","location":null,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams","identified_edition":"UNK1930","book_title":"The Problem of Faust","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA273/English/UNK1930/19190119p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"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/273/1919-01-19/p013"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p013","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Auf dem geistig-moralischen Gebiete muß dasselbe, was die Waage, was der Pendel erreicht in seiner Ruhelage, der Mensch erreichen können. Der Mensch soll nicht anstreben, die absolute Ruhelage zu haben, das macht ihn faul, verfault. 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