{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-02-28/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The true mission of the eyes is to forget their inner being and recognize what created them, that is what to the eyes is the higher self—the light. The situation is the same in regard to a person's ordinary self; that too is nothing but an organ, a tool; and self-knowledge becomes ever greater the more this self can forget itself and become aware of the spirit-light, existing in the eternal world, that created our spiritual eyes and continually does so. Therefore, self-knowledge rightly understood means self-development. This we must keep in mind and see as background to today's lecture, which concerns the subject of self-knowledge in the highest sense of the word.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-02-28","location":null,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-02-28/p005","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/AP1987/19070228p01.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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Aus ursprünglich niederen Organisationen, aus einem Lebewesen, das keine Augen hatte, das um sich nur Dunkles hatte, lockte geradezu das Licht erst die Augen heraus. Darum ist es so tief begründet, was Goethe sagt: «Die Augen sind am Licht und für das Licht gebildet.» Aber die Augen sind nicht da, um sich selbst zu betrachten. Wollten wir vom Standpunkt der Augen sprechen, so müßten wir sagen: Die Augen erfüllen ihren Zweck um so besser, je mehr sie sich selbst vergessen und ihren Schöpfer — das Licht — erkennen. Der Mensch würde nimmermehr die Mission der Augen erfüllen, wenn er hereinblicken könnte in dieses Augeninnere selbst. Dieses sogenannte Innere vergessen und gerade das, was das Innere geschaffen hat, das höhere Selbst des Auges, das Licht, erkennen, das ist die Aufgabe, die Mission des Auges! Ähnlich verhält es sich mit dem, was der Mensch das gewöhnliche Selbst nennt. Auch das ist nichts anderes als Organ, Werkzeug, und die Selbsterkenntnis steigt um so höher, je mehr dieses Selbst des Menschen sich selbst vergessen kann, je mehr es gewahr wird, daß in der Außenwelt ebenso das Geisteslicht ist, das unsere geistigen Augen geschaffen hat und noch fortwährend schafft. Daher ist mit Selbsterkenntnis, wenn sie richtig verstanden wird, Selbstentwicklung gemeint. Dies müssen wir im Hintergrunde sehen, wenn wir heute ein Thema — wichtig für den Menschen wie wenige — betrachten wollen: das Thema der Selbsterkenntnis im höchsten Sinne des Wortes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-02-28/p005"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-02-28/p004","GA 55/1907-02-28/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":300,"en_words":248,"ratio":0.83,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.91,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4366,"original_word_count":4806,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/AP1987/19070228p01.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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