{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 44/05_02/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"THOMASIUS:  \nYou have a victor, O high bearers of wisdom,  \nIn me, who after many heated struggles  \nAnd years of mental effort  \nHas erected the proud edifice of knowledge,  \nAnd found it defended first  \nBy the spirit of inquiry of my own soul  \nAnd now by the confession of many people.  \nFinally, raise up as a member of your temple treasure  \nYou, this my work.  \nBlinded by such abundance of light,  \nIt seems to me that only astonishment is fitting  \nBefore what the power of the mind, through me,  \nA weak instrument, wanted to achieve.  \nAnd truly, if anything in the vast universe  \nCould drown out the voice of my own heart,  \nThe words of the high master  \nMust be able to do so, who just now  \nSpoke to me so fatherly.  \nBut in truth, man alone  \nMay approach this temple.  \nTherefore, it befits me to do something else  \nThan to ask for your high protection.  \nFor know that the accomplisher of the work,  \nWho found countless confessors,  \nTo whom you wish to give consecration:  \nHe stands as a renegade of his own message  \nIn this hour before your judgment seat,  \nAnd with his own soul's contradiction  \nThe terrible realization unites,  \nThat here in this place recognition  \nMay find what to the creator  \nCan only appear as error. —  \nAs long as the work held me in chains  \nAnd I was driven from conclusion to conclusion  \nRushing toward the deceptive goal,  \nThe structure appeared rock-solid to me.  \nAnd it remained so for a long time,  \nAfter the work was completed.  \nHad it been otherwise, I would have understood  \nThe effect  \nThat emanated from my message.  \nBut only late, when the numbness had faded,  \nThe creative forces poured over my self,  \nAnd I faced myself again,  \nThen the resistance could awaken,  \nWhich showed me in my own being  \nQuite clearly what an illusion  \nHad sprung from the spirit,  \nWhich believed itself so secure, yes, that  \nThe world could still hold firmly together at this hour.  \nThe world, for which my edifice of knowledge  \nWas to provide a firm foundation  \nAnd which, from the depths of its being  \nIn times when the spirit enters spiritual spheres  \nCan rise to conscious vision  \nAppeared in its own essence  \nAnd true form before my soul.  \nOh, how different everything was there,  \nThan it had been drawn in my soul's delusion  \nIn the well-constructed edifice of knowledge.  \nThere I had to see  \nHow error stands in relation to truth in reality.  \nDeath is not only the destruction  \nOf the physical being that envelops the core of man,  \nIt is also the destruction of what, as truth,  \nThe shell with its senses can ever conceive.  \nAnd when the man will one day appear  \nWho brings true images of what  \nLies beyond the threshold of death,  \nThen it will not be through harmony  \nwith all that reason recommends,  \nthe reality of the spiritual realm before the soul,  \nit will be through its conflict  \nwith all that is temporal that the eternal being  \nwill be brought to life in the heart.  \nYou imagine yourselves to be the messengers of a higher world;  \nyou want to have received from ancient times  \nA knowledge of the original forms of beings.  \nBy entrusting it to the signs  \nThat come from the realm of time,  \nYou have already married it to delusion and delusional beings.  \nYou have entered the realm of deception  \nAnd have the true essence of being,  \nThat was once bequeathed to you,  \nTransformed into a caricature even more distorted  \nThan those dull human souls  \nWhom you wish to guide as leaders.  \nIf delusion had departed from my errant soul at the right moment,  \nI would have found the strength  \nTo proclaim to the whole world:  \nTo cry out to the whole world:  \nO Avoid, O people, the error,  \nWhich with glitzy arts  \nCreeps into your souls. —  \nBefore I could, I received word  \nThat your protection is with my message.  \nI hurried to my friend,  \nWho knew best  \nHow I should find myself in this cruel hardship,  \nThat your light of wisdom would shine brightly  \nOver my deception.  \nWith words of wisdom deeply rooted  \nMy noble friend met me,  \nBut only a dark certainty seized me  \nThe certainty that I had deceived myself,  \nAnd since my evil art had succeeded  \nIn deceiving you too, that  \nIn all the wide world the pillars of truth  \nStand on rotten ground.  \nThe compulsion that drives me here  \nTo tell you freely that you too  \nCan only walk in darkness,  \nIt takes more from man  \nThan spiritual spheres can ever give him.","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":768,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/05_02/p035","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/p035"},{"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/p035","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; 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