{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Bible also distinguishes between the beings who are the creators, the formers of these three members of the human being. The teachings of Moses speak of the creator, the shaper of the human I, the creator of the bearer of human self-consciousness. Therefore, the Bible also sees in the God who infused the I into human beings the one who came last, so to speak, in relation to the evolution of human beings. The divine beings who are called the Elohim, whom we have strictly distinguished from the God Yahweh or Jehovah, these divine beings are the creators of the physical, etheric, and astral bodies. In the Bible, they are clearly distinguished from the last God to appear in our evolution, from the God Yahweh, from the one who brought the I to human beings. When we ask: Where does man find the entity of this God, this youngest of the creative gods, of whom the Bible begins to speak in the fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis? Spiritual Science shows us that where human beings find their ego within themselves, which is so essentially different from all other beings around us, even in its name, they find within themselves a drop of this divine being. This is not a pantheistic teaching, nor is it an explanation that human beings must find their God within themselves. To claim that would be like claiming that a drop of water is the same essence as the sea — and saying: this drop of water is the sea.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Bible and Wisdom II","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-11-14","location":null,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p019","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/p019"},{"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/p019","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/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Diejenigen Wesenheiten nun, welche die Schöpfer, die Bildner dieser drei Glieder der menschlichen Wesenheit sind, die unterscheidet auch die Bibel. Die Lehre des Moses spricht von dem Schöpfer, dem Bildner des menschlichen Ichs, von dem Schöpfer des Trägers des menschlichen Selbstbewußtseins. Daher sieht auch die Bibel in dem Gotte, der in den Menschen einfließen ließ das Ich, sozusagen den, der am letzten darangekommen ist in bezug auf die Evolution des Menschen. Die göttlichen Wesenheiten, die als die Elohim bezeichnet werden, die wir streng unterschieden haben von dem Gotte Jahve oder Jehovah, diese göttlichen Wesenheiten sind die Schöpfer von dem physischen, ätherischen und astralischen Leib. Sie sind in der Bibel genau unterschieden von dem letzten in unserer Evolution auftretenden Gott, von dem Jahve-Gott, von dem, der dem Menschen das Ich gebracht hat. Wenn wir fragen: Wo findet der Mensch die Wesenheit dieses Gottes, dieses jüngsten der schöpferischen Götter, von dem die Bibel zu sprechen beginnt im vierten Vers des zweiten Kapitels der Genesis? — da zeigt uns die Geisteswissenschaft, daß da, wo der Mensch in sich sein Ich findet, das sich so wesentlich, schon seinem Namen nach, von allen anderen Wesenheiten um uns herum unterscheidet, daß er da findet in sich einen Tropfen dieser göttlichen Wesenheit. Das ist keine pantheistische Lehre, auch keine Erklärung dafür, daß der Mensch seinen Gott in sich zu finden hat. Das zu behaupten wäre gleich dem, der behauptet, ein Tropfen Wasser ist dasselbe Wesen wie das Meer — und sagt: dieser Tropfen Wasser ist das Meer.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p019"}],"english":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p019"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":250,"en_words":258,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","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/p019"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}