{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now this is indeed an extraordinarily interesting example of the wrong track that this research in particular can take due to a certain inability. After all, what would we actually gain if we could truly observe, say, a tender feeling? A tender feeling would remain in the soul exactly what it is. By observing this tender feeling, we would experience nothing other than what this tender feeling is. Nothing about the soul; nothing at all about the soul. And it is the same with the other examples Hartmann cites. For it depends on the fact that what we should actually call soul never shows itself in what the moment offers. Rather, the soul can only truly appear to us when we are experiencing the changes of the individual soul experiences. If we wanted to observe what is present in the soul in a moment, we would be like the person who goes out into the fields at a certain time of year and sees the brown soil of the fields, spread out widely, and says to himself: this brown soil of the fields is what is actually spread out there. After a certain time, he goes out again. Now there are green shoots everywhere. If he is observing rationally, will he not say: Yes, then the brown soil that I saw recently did not show me everything that is actually there. Only by observing the changes that have taken place at different points in time can I understand what it actually is: that it is not just soil that has been spread, but that this soil has contained so many seeds that have sprouted and are sprouting.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-03-31","location":null,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Mind and Matter — Life and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA066/English/SOL2024/19170331p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Denn es kommt darauf an, daß sich das, was wir eigentlich Seele nennen sollten, niemals zeigt in dem, was der Augenblick bietet. Sondern das Seelische kann erst wirklich vor uns auftreten, wenn wir gerade die Veränderungen erleben der einzelnen seelischen Erlebnisse. Würden wir beobachten wollen, was in einem Augenblick in der Seele vorhanden ist, so würden wir etwa dem gleichen, der in einer gewissen Jahreszeit hinausgeht aufs Feld und die braune Ackererde sieht, weit ausgebreitet, und sich sagt: diese braune Ackererde ist dasjenige, was da eigentlich ausgebreitet ist. Nach einer gewissen Zeit geht er wieder hinaus. Jetzt ist überall grün Sprossendes herausgekommen. Wird, der also beobachtet, wenn er vernünftig ist, dann nicht sagen: Ja, dann hat mir eben die braune Ackererde, die ich kürzlich gesehen habe, nicht alles gezeigt, was eigentlich da vorhanden ist. Erst dadurch, daß ich zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten die Veränderung, die vor sich gegangen ist, beobachtet habe, komme ich dahinter, um was es sich eigentlich handelt: daß da nicht bloß Ackererde ausgebreitet ist, sondern daß diese Ackererde in sich soundso viele Samenkörner, die sprießen und sprossen, enthalten hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":276,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/66/1917-03-31/p013"}],"english":["GA 66/1917-03-31/p013"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":276,"en_words":277,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10452,"original_word_count":9922,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Mind and Matter — Life and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA066/English/SOL2024/19170331p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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