{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1908-02-20/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You know perhaps that the theosophical view says that human existence runs its course in repeated earth lives. We will only bring that forward briefly. Man goes through many earth lives in his evolutionary path to ever higher perfection. We say in spiritual investigation that everything that lives is subject to transformation. Everything in the world is subject to such transformation, not only man but also mighty worlds are subject to continual change. Just as when we regard the single human being and say “That which transpires in the present life between birth and death is the result of former incarnations,” so we can look to a whole heavenly body and we only understand such a body in the sense of spiritual science when we know that it has acquired in former lives that which it has become today. We also say of the earth and planets that they have passed through other incarnations. As the spiritually highly developed man can look back to former earth lives so earlier planetary conditions can be perceived from the standpoint of spiritual science. We point back to the previous planetary condition of the earth, and this pre-earth is called in spiritual science Cosmos of Wisdom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"39. The Origin of Evil","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-02-20","location":null,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1908-02-20/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19080220p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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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So, wie, wenn wir den einzelnen Menschen betrachten, wir sagen: Das, was sich im gegenwärtigen Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod abspielt, ist die Wirkung früherer Verkörperungen, so können wir auf einen ganzen Himmelskörper blicken; und geisteswissenschaftlich verstehen wir einen solchen Körper nur dann, wenn wir wissen, dass er das, was er heute geworden ist, sich erworben hat in früheren Leben. Wir sprechen auch von der Erde und den Planeten, dass sie durch andere Verkörperungen hindurchgegangen sind. Wie der geistig hochentwickelte Mensch zurücksehen kann auf frühere Erdenleben, so lassen sich auch frühere planetarische Zustände übersehen vom Standpunkt der Geisteswissenschaft. Wir weisen zurück auf den vorhergehenden planetarischen Zustand der Erde, und diese Vorerde bezeichnen wir in der Geisteswissenschaft mit «Kosmos der Weisheit».","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1908-02-20/p019"}],"english":["GA 68a/1908-02-20/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":192,"en_words":202,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4934,"original_word_count":5180,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19080220p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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