{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-05-07/p065","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Why should that not lead to people seeing that the Goetheanum is a place where not children are involved in preparation, but old, balding guys who still want to be prepared? Yes, a school that is not attended by children but only by old people must be a madhouse! — You see, that is what they say because they cannot imagine that people still want to learn something. And that is what we must realize: in order to read something like the Gospels, one must first be properly prepared for it, because it is meant to be pictorial. Just as if someone today wanted to read a Chinese document, he would first have to learn the letters. If you wanted to take the Gospels as they are written, it would of course be nonsense, just as Chinese writing is a scribble if you do not look at it properly. But if you understand things correctly, you realize that everything in Christianity is about learning to balance the Ahrimanic with the Luciferic in the right way, so that one does not dominate the other.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XII. Christ, Ahriman and Lucifer","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-07","location":null,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-05-07/p065","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230507p02.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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Geradeso wie wenn heute einer ein chinesisches Schriftstück lesen wollte, so müßte er ja auch erst die Buchstaben kennenlernen. Wenn man heute die Evangelien so nehmen wollte, wie die Evangelien geschrieben sind, so wäre es natürlich ein Unsinn, geradeso wie die chinesische Schrift ein Kritzekratze ist, wenn man sie nicht vernünftig anschaut. Wenn man aber die Dinge richtig versteht, dann kommt man eben darauf, daß alles im Christlichen dahin geht: Du sollst lernen, immer das Ahrimanische mit dem Luziferischen richtig ins Gleichgewicht zu bringen, nicht daß das eine heraufschlägt, das andere hinunterschlägt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/349/1923-05-07/p065"}],"english":["GA 349/1923-05-07/p065"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":183,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5759,"original_word_count":5678,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230507p02.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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