{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 63/1914-04-23/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Above all, it must be pointed out that sleep can only compensate for what is damaged or depleted in the physical body, i.e., it can only draw on forces from the spiritual worlds to the extent that the limits of the spiritual faculties that a person brings into existence through birth allow. Spiritual science draws its forces from the world with which the human being is spiritually connected. It can therefore be said that sleep is a remedy insofar as it can compensate for depleted, exhausted forces. Spiritual science, either through what it is in itself or what it is able to give, provides human beings with forces that they do not already have within themselves, that are not already present in their predispositions; it opens up a higher source of healing for human beings than ordinary, normal life can provide, even with the best sleep. And what can radiate from the soul in a healing way, as it were, through a living immersion in spiritual science, can be compared to what ordinary medical science can do, by saying: Even conventional medicine can basically only call upon those healing powers for human recovery that are already within the human being, but are suppressed by opposing forces. Spiritual science, on the other hand, brings new forces into effect in the human being, forces that are only just developing, that are not yet predisposed; it appeals not only to the human being as a microcosm, but to the connection of the human being as a microcosm with the great spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-04-23","location":null,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140423p01.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/63/1914-04-23/p017"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/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. 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Die Geisteswissenschaft führt entweder durch das, was sie selber ist, oder was sie zu geben vermag, dem Menschen Kräfte zu, die er nicht schon in sich hat, die nicht schon in seinen Anlagen sind; sie eröffnet dem Menschen einen höheren Quell der Gesundung, als ihm das gewöhnliche, normale Leben auch mit dem besten Schlafe verschaffen kann. Und was so von der Seele aus gleichsam gesundend ausstrahlen kann durch das lebendige Sich-hinein-Finden in die Geisteswissenschaft, das möchte man vergleichen mit dem, was gewöhnliche ärztliche Kunst vermag, indem man sagt: Auch die gewöhnliche ärztliche Kunst vermag im Grunde genommen nur diejenigen Heilkräfte zur Gesundung des Menschen aufzurufen, die schon im Menschen sind, die nur unterdrückt sind durch entgegengesetzte Kräfte. Die Geisteswissenschaft dagegen bringt neue Kräfte im Menschen zur Wirksamkeit, Kräfte, die sich erst entwickeln, die noch nicht veranlagt sind; sie appelliert nicht nur an den Menschen als Mikrokosmos, sondern an den Zusammenhang des Menschen als Mikrokosmos mit der großen geistigen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":244,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p017"}],"english":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":244,"en_words":259,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9309,"original_word_count":9008,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 63/1914-04-23/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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