{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-11-08/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A being whose nature works against disintegration is a being possessing life. If it is able to let death arise, and continuously transform that death into life, then it is a conscious being. Consciousness is the strongest of all forces. Death must of necessity arise in the midst of life; consciousness, or conscious spirit, is the force that eternally wrenches life from death. Life is both an inward and an external process, whereas consciousness is purely an inward one. A substance that dies outwardly cannot become conscious. Consciousness can only arise in substance that can generate death within itself and overcome it. As a perceptive person once remarked: “From death springs not only life but consciousness.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Origin of Suffering","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-11-08","location":null,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1906-11-08/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19061108p02.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"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/55/1906-11-08/p027"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1906-11-08/p027","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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Ist es imstande, in sich selbst den Tod erstehen zu lassen und diesen Tod fortwährend zum Leben umzuwandeln, dann entsteht Bewußtsein. Das Bewußtsein ist die stärkste von allen Kräften, die uns entgegentreten. Bewußtsein oder bewußter Geist ist diejenige Kraft, welche ewig aus dem Tode, der inmitten des Lebens erzeugt werden muß, das Leben wieder erstehen läßt. Leben ist ein Prozeß, der es zu tun hat mit einer Außenwelt und einer Innenwelt; Bewußtsein aber ist ein Prozeß, der es nur mit einer Innenwelt zu tun hat. Eine Substanz, die nach außen hin sterben kann, kann nicht bewußt werden. Bewußt kann nur eine solche Substanz sein, die in ihrem eigenen Mittelpunkt den Tod erzeugt und überwindet. So ist der Tod — wie ein deutscher geistvoller Theosoph gesagt hat — nicht nur die Wurzel des Lebens, sondern auch die Wurzel des Bewußtseins.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1906-11-08/p025"}],"english":["GA 55/1906-11-08/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":151,"en_words":116,"ratio":0.77,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.81,"band":"watch","note":"This witness is somewhat shorter than the original. 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