{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p046","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The non-recognition of the observing consciousness does not lead to the knowledge of the origin and essence of man, just as the breaking of a mirror does not lead to the knowledge of those beings who are reflected in it. Renan felt this. He felt that where earlier times sought the spiritual origin of man, his world view posits a nothing. His mind protested against this by him declaring in old age that he would rather know that there is a hell than believe that nothingness is real. As long as only the mind protests in this way, as long as humanity will not get beyond the limitations of the world view that has so far blocked the paths to the beyond of the senses and the beyond of the soul. Only when humanity declares its willingness to develop such strong thinking and imagining that the soul can strengthen itself for what is, in the seeing consciousness, a living continuation of what Goethe suggested in his concept of the contemplating power of judgment, and which Kant regards as an adventure of reason, only when humanity decides to to advance to this realization of thoughts, to the whole soul world, in order to penetrate into spiritual reality with the seeing consciousness, then not only a mere protest of the mind, but a protest of knowledge will arise against the powers of compulsion of that so-called monism, which wants to split man off from a knowledge of his actual being. And I think that today we can already feel the inner nerve that lives in the spiritual-scientific debates in such a way that we are living at the starting point of those upheavals in human soul life that lead out of the realization of the already admired natural scientific world view into the beyond of the senses and the beyond of the soul, into the actual place of origin of the human being, into the spirit.","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":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p046","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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So lange nur das Gemüt in solcher Weise protestiert, so lange wird die Menschheit über die Schranken der Weltanschauung, die bis heute die Wege zu dem Jenseits der Sinne und dem Jenseits der Seele verbaut hat, nicht hinauskommen. Erst wenn die Menschheit sich geneigt erklärt, so starkes Denken und Vorstellen auszubilden, daß die Seele sich erkraften kann zu dem, was im schauenden Bewußtsein lebendige Fortbildung dessen ist, was Goethe angeregt hat in seinem Begriff von der anschauenden Urteilskraft, auf den Kant wie auf ein Abenteuer der Vernunft blickt, erst wenn die Menschheit sich entschließt, zu dieser Erkraftung der Gedanken, der ganzen Seelenwelt vorzuschreiten, um mit dem schauenden Bewußtsein in die geistige Wirklichkeit einzudringen, dann wird nicht mehr ein bloßer Gemütsprotest nur, sondern ein Erkenntnisprotest sich erheben gegen die Zwangsmächte jenes sogenannten Monismus, der den Menschen von einer Erkenntnis seiner eigentlichen Wesenheit abspalten will. Und ich denke, daß man den inneren Nerv, der in den geisteswissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzungen lebt, doch heute schon so verspüren kann, daß wir leben im Ausgangspunkte jener Umwälzungen im menschlichen Seelenleben, welche aus der Erkenntnis des ja schon bewunderten naturwissenschaftlichen Weltbildes hinaus in das Jenseits der Sinne und das Jenseits der Seele, in die eigentliche Ursprungsstätte des Menschen, in den Geist führen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/66/1917-03-31/p046"}],"english":["GA 66/1917-03-31/p046"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":293,"en_words":324,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","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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