{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p020-p027","extent":"range","passage_number":20,"through":27,"paragraph_count":8,"first_locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p020","last_locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"The Bible and Wisdom II","date":"1908-11-14","location":null,"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"]},"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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In our ego we find a spark of this Yahweh deity, just as the same essence is found in the drop of water as in the sea. But it was a very long path that human development had to take, during which the Yahweh deity began to shape human beings so that they could grasp the ego with their consciousness. The power of the I had to work in man for a long time before man came to the consciousness of the I. Moses became the great forerunner in bringing man's consciousness to the I. But these forces have been working and forming human evolution for a long time before that. They form in such a way that we can recognize their way if we concern ourselves a little with the evolution of human consciousness itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p020","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/p020"],"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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If we go far, far back in the origins of humankind, not in the sense of materialistic science, but as I explained the day before yesterday, we find that human consciousness appears to be more and more different the further back we go. This consciousness, which links the various concepts of the intellect and the external sensory perceptions in the familiar way, only came into being in the distant past, but it did come into being. We can find a state of consciousness in that time that was very different from today, because memory in particular was very different. What humans have today as memory is only a degraded remnant of an ancient soul power that existed in a completely different way. In ancient times, when humans did not yet have the combinatory power of their present intellect, when they were not yet able to calculate and count in the present sense, when they had not yet developed their intellectual logic, they had another power of the soul: they had developed a universal memory. This had to diminish, had to recede, so that our present intellect could develop at its expense. This is the course of development in general, that one power recedes into the background so that another can emerge. Memory is a diminishing power, intellect and reason are increasing soul powers.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":271,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p021","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/p021"],"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. 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This memory did not break off in the distant past, not in childhood, not even at birth; but just as people today remember what they themselves have experienced in their personal lives, so people in ancient times remembered what their fathers and grandfathers had experienced through entire generations. Memory was a spiritual force that spread through generations. Over centuries, memories were preserved in the distant past, and this different form of memory was linked to a different way of naming.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p022","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/p022"],"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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So at that time, the name was given to that which, retaining the same memory, was remembered through the centuries from generation to generation—Adam, Noah. And what was that? It was that which passed through father, son, and grandson, but which memory preserved. Thus, the biblical document faithfully preserves these secrets, which can only be understood through Spiritual Science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p023","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/p023"],"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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I remember my father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather. — His I passed through the generations, and it even had a name. Just as we find an expression of God in our personal self when we delve into this self, so the ancient man said to himself, looking up through the generations: The God who lives in the self lives down through the generations — as a deity whom Moses then recognized in the higher worlds. The God was none other than the one who lived in ancient times as a self from generation to generation. In the language of that time, what propagated itself as an expression of the God Yahweh was referred to as the I, with the Yahweh words “I am the I am.” That was what Moses learned to recognize in his spiritual revelation. This was revealed for the first time in the vision of the burning bush. It was the same God who had lived down from generation to generation, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It was the power that lived on in living memory and at the same time brought with it everything that established the human order. So we look up to the predecessors of Moses. In the biblical sense, we look up to the patriarchs, to those in whom the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":316,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p024","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/p024"],"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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With their blood, they were born with an innate sense of what had to be done. In those ancient generations, it was something like a spiritualized instinct, which can be compared to what we today call “acting on instinct.” The ancient man did not act according to a commandment, no, he acted according to the character of his being, according to his species. How did the beings referred to as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Bible act? They acted as the blood flowing through the generations impressed upon them. It was the God Yahweh whom they had brought down with their ego, whether they waged war or lived in peace. They had no commandments, they had no law. It was the spiritualized instinct of God that lived in them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p025","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/p025"],"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. 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The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who in his spiritual form gave Moses the law and the commandments because people no longer had the spiritual instinct, had to regulate external order and social coexistence through the commandments, through the law.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p026","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/p026"],"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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But human beings were unable to take the spiritual nature of the I into their consciousness. This required a longer period of preparation, which falls within the time described to us in the Bible as the Old Testament, from the time of Moses to the Mystery of Golgotha. Therefore, this time is a time of promise, represented by the New Gospel, the beginning of the “time of fulfillment.” Thus, the God who found expression in the words “I am that I am” announces himself to Moses. He announces himself in such a way that he orders the external order of human beings, their coexistence, through laws, indirectly through Moses' vision, through Moses' seeing. This is how humanity lived in pre-Christian times, when God created, when Yahweh formed, when “I am that I am” lived, but when humanity could not yet live consciously, but according to the external law that came from Yahweh. The time is drawing ever closer when humanity should become aware of the full self. Throughout antiquity, there was only one means for people who could not yet see, who could not yet encounter God in the physical world. There was only one way in which this God could become effective for them. That was the law, the order. 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Aber es war der Weg, den die Entwickelung des Menschen zurücklegen mußte, ein sehr langer, wobei die Jahve-Gottheit anfing, den Menschen so zu formen, daß er das Ich mit dem Bewußtsein erfassen konnte. Die Kraft des Ichs mußte vorher lange im Menschen arbeiten, bevor der Mensch zum Bewußtsein des Ichs kam. Moses wurde der große Vorläufer in dem Bringen des Bewußtseins des Menschen zum Ich. Aber diese Kräfte arbeiten und bilden schon lange an der menschlichen Evolution vorher. Sie bilden so, daß wir ihre Weise erkennen können, wenn wir uns etwas mit der Evolution des menschlichen Bewußtseins selber beschäftigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p020"},{"locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Blicken wir ein wenig zurück in der Entwickelung des menschlichen Bewußtseins. Das Wort Entwickelung braucht man heute sehr häufig, aber so durchgreifend, so intensiv wie die Geisteswissenschaft Ernst macht mit dem Worte Entwickelung, so ist es bei keiner anderen Wissenschaft der Fall. Dieses menschliche Bewußtsein, wie es heute ist, hat sich aus anderen Bewußtseinsformen entwickelt. Wenn wir weit, weit zurückgehen in der Herkunft des Menschen, nicht im Sinne materialistischer Wissenschaft, sondern so, wie ich es vorgestern entwickelt habe, dann finden wir, daß das Menschen-Bewußtsein immer mehr als ein anderes erscheint, je weiter wir zurückgehen. Dieses Bewußtsein, welches die verschiedenen Verstandesbegriffe, die äußeren Sinneswahrnehmungen in der bekannten Art verknüpft, das ist erst entstanden, wenn auch in urferner Vergangenheit, aber es ist erst entstanden. Wir können in jener Zeit einen Zustand des Bewußtseins finden, der ganz anders war als heute, weil besonders das Gedächtnis ganz anders war. Das, was der Mensch heute als Gedächtnis hat, ist nur ein heruntergekommener Rest einer alten Seelenkraft, die in ganz anderer Weise vorhanden war. In alten Zeiten, als der Mensch noch nicht die kombinierende Kraft seines heutigen Verstandes hatte, als er noch nicht imstande war, zu rechnen und zu zählen im heutigen Sinne, als er noch nicht seine Verstandeslogik ausgebildet hatte, da hatte er dafür eine andere Kraft der Seele: er hatte ein universelles Gedächtnis ausgebildet. Dieses mußte abnehmen, mußte zurücktreten, damit auf seine Kosten unser heutiger Verstand zu seiner Entwickelung kommen konnte. So ist überhaupt der Gang der Entwickelung, daß eine Kraft in den Hintergrund tritt, damit die andere auftauchen kann. Das Gedächtnis ist eine abnehmende Kraft, der Verstand und die Vernunft sind zunehmende Seelenkräfte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p021"},{"locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Für diejenigen, die schon längere Jahre hier diese Vorträge hören, kann es nicht etwas besonders Wunderbares sein, was ich jetzt sagen werde. Für die anderen wird es grotesk erscheinen, wenn über die Natur des Gedächtnisses in der folgenden Weise gesprochen werden wird. Was ist das Äußere des menschlichen Gedächtnisses? Es ist das, daß es sich zurückerinnert an gestern, vorgestern und so weiter, bis in die Kindheit. Dann reißt es aber einmal ab. Dieses Gedächtnis riß nicht ab in urferner Vergangenheit, nicht in der Kindheit, nicht einmal bei der Geburt; sondern wie der heutige Mensch sich erinnert an dasjenige, was er selbst in seinem persönlichen Leben erlebt hat, so erinnerte sich der Mensch der Vorzeit an dasjenige, was der Vater, der Großvater durch ganze Generationen hindurch erlebt haben. Das Gedächtnis war durch Generationen hindurch eine Seelenkraft, die sich real verbreitete. Durch Jahrhunderte hindurch hat sich in urferner Vergangenheit die Erinnerung erhalten, und mit dieser anderen Ausbildung des Gedächtnisses hing eine andere Art der Namengebung zusammen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p022"},{"locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wir kommen nun zu der Frage: Warum ist in den ersten Kapiteln der Bibel von Individualitäten die Rede, die wie Adam, Noah Jahrhunderte alt werden? Weil es für die Menschen, die hier gemeint sind, keinen Sinn hätte, die Personen zu begrenzen. Die Erinnerung reicht hinauf durch Generationen bis zu dem Urvater. Dieser ganzen Generation gab man einen Namen. Es hätte keinen Sinn gehabt, einer einzelnen Persönlichkeit den Namen Adam zu geben. So gab man dazumal den Namen dem, was sich, die gleiche Erinnerung festhaltend, durch Jahrhunderte hindurch von Generation zu Generation zurückerinnerte - Adam, Noah. Und was war das? Es war das, was durch Vater, Sohn und Enkel geht, aber die Erinnerung bewahrte. So treu bewahrt die biblische Urkunde diese-Geheimnisse, die erst durch die Geisteswissenschaft verstanden werden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p023"},{"locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Wenn wir das Bewußtsein des Ich, durch das wir die Wesenheit der Jahve-Gottheit erfassen, betrachten, so werden wir sehen, daß das Ich in uns lebt zwischen Geburt und Tod, und daß es diese seine Art aufrechterhält zwischen Geburt und Tod. So hielt das Ich sich damals durch Generationen, durch Jahrhunderte hindurch aufrecht. Wie wir heute von dem Ich sprechen und wissen, daß das Ich zurückgeht so weit, wie wir uns erinnern, ebenso sagte sich der Mensch der Urzeit: Mich selbst ein Ich zu nennen, hat keinen Sinn. Ich erinnere mich zurück an meinen Vater, Großvater, Urgroßvater. — Sein Ich ging durch die Generationen, und es hatte sogar einen Namen. Wie wir in unserem persönlichen Ich einen Ausdruck des Gottes finden, wenn wir uns in dieses Ich vertiefen, so sagte sich der alte Mensch, indem er hinaufsah durch die Generationen: Der Gott, der in dem Ich lebt, lebt durch Generationen hinunter, — als eine Gottheit, die dann Moses in den höheren Welten erkannte. Der Gott war kein anderer als der, welcher sich in alten Zeiten als ein Ich von Generation zu Generation hindurch gelebt hat. Man bezeichnete als Ich, in der Ausdrucksweise der damaligen Zeit, was sich als Ausdruck des Jahve-Gottes fortpflanzte, mit dem Jahve-Worte «Ich bin der Ich-bin». Das war das, was Moses in seiner geistigen Offenbarung erkennen lernte. Im Erschauen des brennenden Dornbusches ist das zum ersten Male offenbart worden. Es war derselbe Gott, der früher von Generation zu Generation herunter gelebt hat, der Gott Abrahams, Isaaks und Jakobs. Es war die Kraft, die also in der lebendigen Erinnerung fortlebte und zu gleicher Zeit alles mit sich brachte, was die menschliche Ordnung begründete. So schauen wir hinauf auf die Vorgängerschaft des Moses. Im biblischen Sinne schauen wir hinauf bis zu den Patriarchen, bis zu denen, in welchen der Gott Abrahams, Isaaks und Jakobs lebte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":305,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p024"},{"locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Diese Zeiten brauchten keine äußeren Gebote, keine äußeren Gesetze. Denn mit dem lebendigen Gedächtnis, mit dessen ganz anderer Art als das Gedächtnis heute ist, lebte sich fort dasjenige, was man zu tun hatte. Wonach handelte man in diesen Urzeiten? Man kommt darauf, wenn man die Bibel richtig versteht. Man handelte nicht nach Geboten. Man handelte nach dem, was einem die Erinnerung sagte, was der Vater, der Großvater und so weiter getan haben. Mit seinem Blute bekam man eingeboren die Richtung zu dem, was man zu tun hatte. Es war in diesen alten Generationen etwas wie ein vergeistigter Instinkt, das man vergleichen kann damit, was wir heute nennen «aus Instinkt heraus handeln». Nicht nach einem Gebot handelte deralteMensch, nein, er handelte nach dem Charakter seines Wesens, nach seinem Gattungswesen. Wie handelten die mit Abraham, Isaak und Jakob in der Bibel bezeichneten Wesen? Sie handelten so, wie das durch die Generationen rinnende Blut es ihnen eindrückte. Der Gott Jahves war es, den sie heruntergebracht hatten mit ihrem Ich, ob sie Krieg führten, ob sie in Frieden lebten. Gebote hatten sie nicht, ein Gesetz hatten sie nicht. Es war der vergeistigte Instinkt Gottes, der in ihnen lebte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p025"},{"locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Zu der Zeit, als Moses auftrat, da war die menschliche Persönlichkeit auf der ersten Stufe ihrer Ausbildung. Da riß sie sich los in ihrem Bewußtsein von diesem gemeinsamen Bewußtsein der Generation. Da hatte schon gründlich aufgehört das Gedächtnis, das durch die Generationen hinaufreichte. Da hatte man nicht mehr den vergeistigten Instinkt zum Handeln. Da mußte etwas anderes an dessen Stelle treten. Da mußte der Gott Abrahams, Isaaks und Jakobs, der in seiner geistigen Naturgestalt Moses das Gesetz, die Gebote gab, weil man nicht mehr den vergeistigten Instinkt hatte, da mußte er die äußere Ordnung, das soziale Zusammenleben durch die Gebote, durch das Gesetz regeln.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p026"},{"locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"So ist derselbe Gott, der vordem als Naturkraft gewirkt hat, jetzt als Gesetzgeber wirksam, um die äußere Ordnung auf dem Gesetzeswege zu begründen. So sehen wir, daß es einen tiefen Sinn hat, an dieser Stelle die Worte zu lesen: der Gott Abrahams, Isaaks und Jakobs. Der Gott, der sich bezeichnet als der Gott «Ich bin der Ich-bin», er ist derselbe wie das vierte Glied der menschlichen Wesenheit, derselbe, der das Ich in die menschliche Wesenheit einfließen ließ. Aber die Menschen konnten die geistige Natur des Ichs nicht in ihr Bewußtsein aufnehmen. Dazu bedurfte es wieder einer längeren Vorbereitung, und diese fällt in die Zeit, die uns durch die Bibel als das Alte Testament geschildert wird, in die Zeit von Moses bis zum Mysterium von Golgatha. Daher ist diese Zeit eine Zeit der Verheißung, die das neue Evangelium darstellt, der Beginn der «Zeit der Erfüllung». Es kündigt sich also dem Moses der Gott an, der den Ausdruck fand «Ich bin der Ich-bin». Er kündigt sich so an, daß er die äußere Ordnung der Menschen, das Zusammenleben derselben durch Gesetze ordnet, auf dem Umwege durch Mosis Schauen, durch Mosis Sehen. So lebte die Menschheit in der vorchristlichen Zeit, in der der Gott schuf, in der der Jahve-Gott bildete, in der der «Ich bin der Ich-bin» lebte, in welcher aber die Menschheit noch nicht bewußt leben konnte, sondern nach dem äußeren Gesetze, das aber von Jahve-Gott stammte. Immer mehr rückt die Zeit heran, wo sich die Menschheit des vollen Ich bewußt werden sollte. Durch das ganze Altertum hindurch gab es nur ein Mittel für die Menschen, die noch nicht schauen konnten, noch nicht entgegentreten konnten dem Gott in der physischen Welt. Nur eine Art gab es, wie dieser Gott für sie wirksam werden konnte. Das war das Gesetz, die Ordnung. Das galt für die äußere Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p027"}],"beads":[{"from":[20],"to":[20],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[22],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[23],"to":[23],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[24],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[25],"to":[25],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[26],"to":[26],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[27],"to":[27],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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