{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 44/05_02/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"THE GRAND MASTER: We feel ourselves to be guardians of ancient wisdom light. It was first entrusted to humanity shrouded in thick veils. It could be felt as dark impulses leading to the right. Humankind had to find itself in darkness before it was allowed to see its true origin. Only in this way could its nature be guided by its own power toward virtue, beauty, and wisdom. It would have had to drown in the foreign spirit if it had been spared the search. Only those who were willing to forego the happiness that springs from earthly spheres for the sake of human salvation were allowed to approach the source of the spirit. We do not say this out of arrogance that we may count ourselves among such people. We would only have to thank the grace of higher spiritual powers who chose us as their instruments. You will find it difficult to believe us now. But you will find faith when you realize that through many lives we had to let the treasures of the soul, which are to form your wealth in the future, dry up uncultivated. As much as appearances may conceal this, we were only allowed to guard the treasures of the temple because we proved ourselves indifferent to the gifts of the world. Thus we may approach you as brothers find brothers. We possess what you lack and what you shall become when your souls find their way back to the realms from which they sprang. Human souls today stand before times of great decision. And what Thomasius has accomplished is destined to significantly change the face of the spiritual striving of all people. The new science, which everyone can learn, incorporates the high spiritual light that until now could only be revealed to human beings who had struggled through hard trials and become familiar with the nature of the hard, to which we were appointed as guardians. That a man of Thomasius' kind must come one day: we have known since time immemorial, since our souls dwelt in bodies on earth in days long past. And our spiritual eyes were fixed on the moment when our mysterious signs would be imprinted in general forms of knowledge. The moment has come: it must also be recognized by human souls = knowledge of this kind can become yours if you come to yourselves in the right sense.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Related drafts for the first, second, and third scenes","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":402,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/05_02/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":null,"book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA044/English/Dweller_05.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"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/44/05_02/p020"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/05_02/p020","paragraph_aligned":true}],"unit_kind":{"kind":"second_piece_same_name","base_unit":"GA 44/05","note":"Another piece with the same name as 05 in this volume; the suffix only separates the two."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"05_02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 44/05_02/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/44/05_02/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":355,"en_words":402,"ratio":1.13,"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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Wir wollten es der Gnade hoher Geistesmächte nur verdanken, die zu Werkzeugen uns ausgewählet haben. Ihr werdet jetzt nur schwer uns glauben können. Doch wird der Glaube sich euch finden, wenn ihr erkennen werdet, daß wir durch viele Leben die Seelenschätze mußten ungepflegt versiechen lassen, die euren Reichtum in der Zukunft bilden sollen. So sehr der Schein dies auch verhüllt, wir durften des Tempels Schätze nur behüten, weil wir den Weltengaben uns stumpf erwiesen. So dürfen wir euch nahen, wie Brüder sich zu Brüdern finden. Wir besitzen, was ihr entbehrt, und was euch werden soll, wenn eure Seelen die Rückkehr finden sollen in jene Reiche, aus denen sie entsprossen. Vor großen Entscheidungszeiten stehen heute Menschenseelen. Und was Thomasius vollbracht: es ist bestimmt, das Angesicht des Geistesstrebens aller Menschen bedeutsam zu verändern. Der neuen Wissenschaft, die ein jeder lernen kann, ist einverleibt das hohe Geisteslicht, das bisher nur dem Menschenwesen sich offenbaren durfte, wenn es durch harte Prüfung sich hindurchgerungen und mit der Art sich hart' vertraut gemacht, der wir zu Wächtern bestellet waren. Daß ein Mensch von Thomasius' Art einmal kommen müsse: wir wußten's seit grauen Zeiten, da unsre Seelen in längstvergang-nen Tagen in Leibern auf der Erde weilten. Und unsre Geistesaugen waren hingerichtet zu dem Zeitenpunkte, da in allgemeinen Wissensformen geprägt sein werden unsre geheimnisschweren Zeichen. Der Zeitpunkt ist erschienen: er muß von Menschenseelen erkannt auch werden = Erkenntnis dieser Art kann euch werden, wenn ihr im rechten Sinne zu euch selber kommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":355,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/44/05_02/p022"}],"english":["GA 44/05_02/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":355,"en_words":402,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7934,"original_word_count":7406,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":null,"book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA044/English/Dweller_05.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 44/05_02/p022"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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