{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p043","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The pupil in the Rosicrucian school had repeatedly to bring the picture before his mind of the plant with its head downward and the reproductive organs stretching towards the beam of the sun. The sunbeam was called the “holy lance of love” that must penetrate the plant to enable the seeds to mature and grow. The pupil was told: Contemplate man in relation to the plant; compare the substance of which man is composed with that of the plant. Man, the plant turned upside down, has permeated his substance, his flesh, with physical cravings, passion and sensuality. The plant stretches in purity and chastity the reproductive organs towards the fertilizing sacred lance of love. This stage will be reached by an individual when he has completely purified all cravings. In the future, when earth evolution has reached its height, a person will attain this ideal. When no impure desires permeate the lower organs, a person will become as chaste and pure as the plant is now. That individual will stretch a lance of spiritual love, the completely spiritualized productive force, towards a calyx that opens as does that of the plant to the holy lance of love of the sunbeam.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Who are the Rosicrucians?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-14","location":null,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p043","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/AP1987/19070314p01.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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Keusch und rein darf die Pflanze die Befruchtungsorgane der Befruchtungslanze, der hehren Liebeslanze, entgegenstrecken. Der Mensch kommt auf einen ähnlichen Standpunkt in der Zeit, wo er die Begierde vollkommen geläutert haben wird, so daß er in eine Zukunft hineinblickt, die ihm die Erfüllung des Ideals bringen wird: Du bist so keusch und rein wie der Blütenkelch der Pflanze. Dann wirst du auf der Höhe der irdischen Entwicklung angelangt sein, dann wird nicht mehr unreine Begierde deine niederen Organe durchziehen, dann wirst du die geistige Liebeslanze, deine produktive Kraft, die dann ganz geistig sein wird, entgegenstrecken dem Blütenkelch, wie der Pflanzenkelch sich öffnet der heiligen Liebeslanze im Sonnenstrahl. So geht der Mensch durch die Reiche der Natur hindurch und läutert sich hinauf bis zur Entwicklung derjenigen Organe, die heute erst in der Anlage begriffen sind. Wenn der Mensch in dem, was heilig und edel ist, etwas hervorbringt, so ist er am Anfang einer zukünftigen, produktiven Kraft, die er haben wird, wenn seine niedere Natur ihre vollständige Läuterung durchgemacht hat. Dann wird er ein neues Organ haben. Der Blütenkelch der Pflanze wird auf höherer Stufe neuerdings erstehen und wird der Lanze des Amfortas entgegengestreckt werden, wie der Blütenkelch der geistigen Liebeslanze der Sonne.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-03-14/p033"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p043","GA 55/1907-03-14/p044"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":309,"en_words":293,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p033"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7578,"original_word_count":8755,"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/AP1987/19070314p01.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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