{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us mention only the most important features. Moses finds himself face to face with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. At the same time, God gives him the task of leading the people out of Egypt, bringing them to a certain greatness and a certain way of life. When Moses then asks for something with which he can justify himself before the people, so that he can say who he is and who sent him, God reveals his name: “I am who I am.” No one who is not able to understand the whole meaning and essence of ancient naming can understand this word. Ancient names are not the same as today's names. Ancient names were intended to express the essence of the personality, the essence of the one who stands before us. In “I am that I am,” the essence of the God who stood before Moses and who calls himself “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” had to be expressed in a very specific way. Why does he call himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Behind this lies a mystery that needs to be unraveled. We can only unravel it if we approach it with the tools of Spiritual Science. We will have to emphasize again and again in various places that human beings consist of the different members of their being, that what we call the physical body is only one part of the human being, that we have higher members beyond this, which are supersensible, which are the actual foundations, the creative principles. We must add to the physical body the etheric or life body, then the astral body, and as the fourth member, the I-bearer. The physical body is shared by human beings with seemingly lifeless beings, with minerals; the etheric body with plants and all living beings; the astral body with animal beings, with those that can have passions and desires. Through the ego, human beings rise above all the sensory beings that surround them. These are the four real members of the human being, which Spiritual Science has always recognized.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Bible and Wisdom II","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-11-14","location":null,"word_count":352,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19081114p01.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/57/1908-11-14/p017"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p017","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. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Die wichtigsten Züge seien nur angeführt. Moses sieht sich gegenüber dem Gotte Abrahams, Isaaks und Jakobs. Der Gott gibt ihm zu gleicher Zeit den Auftrag, das Volk aus Ägypten hinaus zu führen, es zu einer bestimmten Größe und zu einem bestimmten Verhalten zu bringen. Als dann Moses etwas haben will, wodurch er sich rechtfertigen kann vor dem Volke, damit er sagen könne, wer er sei und wer ihn schickt, da enthüllt der Gott seinen Namen: «Ich bin der Ich-bin.» Dieses Wort kann niemand verstehen, der nicht auf den ganzen Sinn und das Wesen alter Namengebung einzugehen in der Lage ist. Alte Namengebungen sind nicht die heutigen Namengebungen. Alte Namengebungen sollten durchaus ausdrücken das Wesen der Persönlichkeit, das Wesen dessen, der uns entgegentritt. In dem «Ich bin der Ich-bin» mußte sich in ganz bestimmter Art das Wesen des Gottes ausdrücken, der dem Moses gegenüberstand, und der sich nennt «der Gott Abrahams, Isaaks und Jakobs». Warum nennt er sich der Gott Abrahams, Isaaks und Jakobs? Dahinter liegt ein Geheimnis, das enträtselt sein will. Wir können es nur enträtseln, wenn wir mit den Mitteln der Geisteswissenschaft daran herantreten. Wir werden es in den verschiedenen Stellen immer wieder hervorzuheben haben, daß der Mensch besteht aus den verschiedenen Gliedern seiner Wesenheit, daß wir in dem, was wir den physischen Leib nennen, nur einen Teil des Menschen vor uns haben, daß wir außer diesem höhere Glieder haben, die übersinnlich sind, die die eigentlichen Grundlagen, die schöpferischen Prinzipien sind. Wir müssen hinzufügen dem physischen Leib den Äther- oder Lebensleib, dann den Astralleib und als viertes Glied den Ich-Träger. Den physischen Leib hat der Mensch gemeinschaftlich mit den scheinbar leblosen Wesen, mit den Mineralien, den Ätherleib mit den Pflanzen und allen lebendigen Wesen, den Astralleib mit den tierischen Wesen, mit dem, was Leidenschaften und Begierden haben kann. Durch das Ich ragt der Mensch über alle sinnlichen Wesen, die ihn umgeben, hinaus. Das sind die vier realen Glieder der menschlichen Wesenheit, welche die Geisteswissenschaft immer anerkannt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p017"}],"english":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":328,"en_words":352,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8142,"original_word_count":8014,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19081114p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p017"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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