{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we consider the consciousness of the I, through which we grasp the essence of the Yahweh deity, we see that the I lives within us between birth and death, and that it maintains its nature between birth and death. Thus, the I maintained itself through generations, through centuries. Just as we speak of the I today and know that the I goes back as far as we can remember, so too did the people of ancient times say to themselves: It makes no sense to call myself an I. 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,"title":"The Bible and Wisdom II","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-11-14","location":null,"word_count":316,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p024","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/p024"},{"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/p024","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. 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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"}],"english":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p024"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":305,"en_words":316,"ratio":1.04,"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/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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