{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-03-21/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Among all kinds of other cases he describes the one that may be regarded as a veritable *experimentum crucis*, and it caused a tremendous stir. Even the most incredulous journalists—and journalists are usually sceptical, whether or not always from well-founded judgment I could not say—were impressed by this crucial test case. The circumstances were as follows : A medium who claimed to be in communication with the soul of Myers as well as with the soul of Lodge's son, said that a fortnight before the latter was killed at the French Front, he had been photographed together with a number of his companions, and the photograph was minutely described—the placing of the officers, how young Lodge was sitting in the front row, how he was holding his hands, and so forth. It was then said that several photographs had been taken and that the grouping had altered slightly while this was being done. The different grouping was also indicated with the same precision—the position of young Lodge's hands and arms had changed, he was inclining towards the man next him, and so forth. An exact description was given of this photograph too. Now the photographs were not in England; nobody—neither the medium, nor any of the family, nor Sir Oliver Lodge himself—had seen them. It could only be assumed that the medium was rambling in imagination when describing the photographs. But lo and behold, after fourteen days these photographs arrived and tallied exactly with what the medium had said. That this was an *experimentum crucis* for Lodge and those intimately concerned, cannot be wondered at; and it is here that the real interest of the book lies. A genuine spiritual investigator will not, of course, be taken in—as in a certain respect Lodge himself was taken in—because the scrupulously exact presentation enables him to form an independent, objective judgment.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Manifestations of the Unconscious","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-03-21","location":null,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-03-21/p038","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180321p01.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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Es wird genau beschrieben, wie die Kameraden in der Reihe angeordnet sind, wie der Sohn des Lodge in der unteren Reihe sitzt, wie er seine Hände hält und so weiter. Dann wird berichtet, daß mehrere Aufnahmen existieren, wieso der Photograph mehrere Aufnahmen hintereinander macht, und dabei die Gruppierung etwas verändert. Die andere Gruppierung wurde ebenso genau angegeben, wie dabei Lodge die Stellung der Hände und der Arme verändert hat, wie er sich zu seinem Nachbar neigt und so weiter. Auch diese Photographie wurde genau beschrieben. Die Photographien waren nicht in England, niemand hatte sie gesehen, weder das Medium noch irgend jemand von der Familie noch Lodge selber. Man konnte nur glauben, daß das Medium irgendwie phantasiere, als es die Photographien beschrieb. Aber siehe da, nach vierzehn Tagen kamen diese Photographien an, und man sah, daß sie genau mit den Angaben des Mediums übereinstimmten. Daß dies ein Kreuzexperiment für Lodge und für diejenigen war, die es anging, kann nicht wundernehmen. Dies ist es auch, was das Buch interessant macht. Allerdings wird der wirkliche Geistesforscher nicht ebenso hineinfallen, wie Lodge selber in einer gewissen Beziehung hineingefallen ist, weil er gerade wegen der gewissenhaften Darstellung des Lodge sich über den Fall ein unabhängiges, objektives Urteil bilden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-03-21/p035"}],"english":["GA 67/1918-03-21/p038"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":309,"en_words":309,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10888,"original_word_count":10914,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180321p01.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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