{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There were Mysteries of great significance, deeply influencing ancient European civilisation, in various regions of France, Germany and Britain. In all these regions the Mysteries were of a definite and unique kind, and were instituted on the basis of knowledge such as I indicated in my lecture “Isis and Madonna,” namely, that man has a spiritual origin, that his home was once in spiritual worlds whence his spirit and soul have come forth. When a man penetrates more deeply into his soul and rises to a level higher than that of ordinary sense-perception, he still feels, even to-day, that there is within him something that is a last remnant of his being as it was in the spiritual world. To-day, this last remnant—the human soul—is enclosed within the physical body, which in its turn is a densification of the primordial spiritual being. When he has conscious realisation of the spirit and soul within him, man says: ‘Now I know what I once was in my whole being; now I know that I was born out of the womb of worlds, out of the great universe.’ To-day the universe is revealed to human intelligence in everything that is spread out before the senses. But behind all that can be perceived by the senses and grasped by the intellect there is the spiritual universe—the Primordial Father and Mother from whom the soul is born. The body too is born from them but at first in spiritual form. This true form of man is now hidden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The European Mysteries and Their Initiates","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-05-06","location":null,"word_count":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-05-06/p006","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"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/eLib2014/19090506p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Hingewiesen wurde darauf, daß der Mensch jetzt noch bei einem tieferen Blick in die Seele fühlt, daß er, wenn er sich erhebt über die physische Beobachtung, etwas hat, was ein letzter Rest seines einstigen Wesens in der geistigen Welt ist. Heute ist dieser letzte Rest, des Menschen Seele, eingeschlossen in den physischen Leib, der eine Verdichtung der geistigen Urwesenheit ist. Das, was der Mensch da eingeschlossen weiß als seinen Seelengeist, von dem sagt er sich: Das zeigt mir, wie ich einstmals im ganzen war, zeigt, wie ich herausgeboren bin aus dem Weltenschoße, aus dem ganzen Universum. Heute zeigt sich das Universum dem äußeren Verstand in alledem, was sich vor den Sinnen ausbreitet; aber hinter alledem, was die Sinne sehen, was der Verstand begreifen kann, ist das geistige Universum. Das ist der Urvater, die Urmutter, aus denen heraus die Seele geboren ist, die heute noch die Formen bewahrt hat, die damals auch der Leib hatte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":235,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p006"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Im Grunde ist auch der Leib aus dem geistigen Universum heraus geboren, auch er hatte einst eine geistige Gestalt. Was den Menschen in seiner wahren Gestalt zeigt, ist heute verborgen. Als einen verborgenen Teil des sichtbaren Menschen sah man auch in diesen alten europäischen Mysterien das Menschenwesen in seiner wahren Gestalt an. Und man sah darin eine Isis, welche sucht nach dem, woraus sie entstanden ist. Einweihung war das Erlebenlassen des Ganzen jener Prozeduren, wodurch des Menschen Seele wieder das schauen konnte, woraus sie geboren ist, das Entwickeln der Fähigkeit der Seele, durch die sie sich wieder vereinigenkann mit dem geistigen Urgrunde. Ob in der Tiefe des heiligen Haines oder in besonders dazu hergerichteten Mysterienstätten, ist gleichgültig; überall wurde der Kandidat in solche Lagen gebracht, durch die er den Anschluß an die geistigen Urgründe des Menschen finden konnte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p007"}],"english":["GA 57/1909-05-06/p006","GA 57/1909-05-06/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":373,"en_words":361,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 57/1909-05-06/p006","GA 57/1909-05-06/p007"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5514,"original_word_count":5566,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"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/eLib2014/19090506p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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