{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-11-08_02/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When a being works against disintegration and decay then it is a living being. If it is able to let death arise within it and to transform this death continually into life, then consciousness arises. Consciousness is the strongest of all forces that we encounter. Consciousness, or conscious spirit, is that force which out of death, which must be created in the midst of life, eternally makes life arise again. Life is a process which is concerned with an outer world and an inner world. Consciousness, however, is a process which has to do only with an inner world. A substance which can die externally cannot become conscious. A substance can only become conscious that creates death in its own centre and overcomes it. 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The German served under this id repeats the German of 1906-11-08: one German text, to be cited at 1906-11-08.","same_lecture_as":"GA 55/1906-11-08","german_repeats":"GA 55/1906-11-08"},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-11-08_02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 55/1906-11-08_02/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1906-11-08_02/p025"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":151,"en_words":144,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 55/1906-11-08_02/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Wenn ein Wesen dem Zerfall entgegenarbeitet, dann ist es ein lebendiges Wesen. 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_02/p025"}],"english":["GA 55/1906-11-08_02/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":151,"en_words":144,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6799,"original_word_count":6967,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Violet E. 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