{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 277b/1920-04-17/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the first part of today's program, you will see a performance of the first scene of the second part of Goethe's “Faust” with the help of eurythmy. This first scene of the second part of Goethe's “Faust” has been misunderstood many times. It was objected that Goethe had made the transition from the first part of Faust to the second part far too easy for himself. Faust has incurred a heavy guilt, has brought people into the deepest misfortune, must have infinitely heavy pangs of conscience. And so he leaves us, if I may say so, in the first part. Now he stands before us again. He is supposed to continue on his path through life. The way Goethe presents it, it is not actually meant symbolically, but rather, it is meant that, indeed, when a person finds himself in such a terrible situation as Faust in this case, he must heal from within. This healing from within cannot, of course, be presented in any other way than by referring to the relationship between the human being and the spiritual world. It is a complete misunderstanding when some people have said in response to this first scene in the second part of Goethe's Faust: Yes, Goethe made things easy for himself. All you have to do is take a refreshing morning walk towards the rising sun after you have incurred a serious guilt, and you are restored to humanity. This is not, however, what is meant by this first scene of the second part of Faust; rather, what is meant by this scene is that a person, when he has so thoroughly ruined his conscience, can actually only recover it through a special connection to the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"59. 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So wie Goethe das darstellt, ist es nicht eigentlich symbolisch gemeint, sondern es ist so gemeint, dass in der Tat der Mensch, wenn er auch in einer so furchtbaren Lebenslage wie der Faust in diesem Falle sich befindet, dass er von innen heraus gesunden muss. Dieses Gesunden-von-innen-heraus kann man natürlich nicht anders darstellen, als indem man Bezug nimmt auf die Beziehungen des Menschen zur geistigen Welt. Es ist ganz und gar missverstanden, wenn einzelne Menschen diesem ersten Bild des zweiten Teiles von Goethes «Faust» entgegengehalten haben: Ja, Goethe habe sich die Sache leicht gemacht. Da braucht man ja nur, nachdem man eine schwere Schuld auf sich geladen hat, einen erfrischenden Morgenspaziergang der aufgehenden Sonne gegenüber zu machen - und man sei wiederum dem Menschtum zurückgegeben. Das ist allerdings mit diesem ersten Bild des zweiten Teils des «Faust» nicht gemeint, sondern mit diesem Bilde ist gemeint, dass der Mensch, wenn er so gründlich sich sein Gewissen ruiniert hat, eigentlich nur durch einen besonderen Bezug zur geistigen Welt wiederum gesunden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277b/1920-04-17/p012"}],"english":["GA 277b/1920-04-17/p012"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":275,"en_words":289,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2719,"original_word_count":2730,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1918–1920","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA277b/English/SOL2024/19200417e01.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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