{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1908-02-20/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us look at the beaver and his dam, building it with marvellous art—if one measures the angles then one will find they are quite exactly measured. So we could observe bit by bit everything that surrounds us. Could we now extract this wisdom from out the world unless it were there within it? The materialistic mood denies that the wisdom which man draws out is in the phenomena. But a natural thinking would tell you that something which man extracts from nature must be contained in it. As little as one can drink water from a glass if none is in it, just as little can one extract wisdom from the world if none is in it. But this wisdom is there and spiritual science knows that this wisdom was in all things at the beginning of earth evolution. Thus in a plant seed for example was a beech; as a proof of this we see a beech tree grows from it and not an oak. The earth carried the wisdom which meets us today already when the things around us were still in germ. Just as truly as the seed comes not from the earth but from the plant, so truly the seed from which our earth was born arose from what the earth was previously. That was the cosmos of wisdom. That which you see today in each leaf, in each organ in man's form, in everything spread out around you, slowly and gradually arose, formed itself member by member and only appeared after wisdom had struggled with wisdom. We had an embodiment on the previous stage of our earth where the wisdom of things was worked out in which, so to say, the things in their wisdom were worked over. What has our earth, to which this Wisdom has come over, for a task? It has its special mission. Just as its predecessor developed the wisdom which surrounds us today bit by bit, similarly our earth today develops bit by hit another cosmic force, and this force is love. Therefore in spiritual investigation we call the earth the Cosmos of Love. The evolution of the earth so runs its course that love appears as a force becoming more and more dominant, and when the earth will have reached its goal then everything will be penetrated by the force of love. Hence we call the earth the cosmos of love. Just as on the previous cosmos the beginning was made with un-wisdom and only gradually was the form of wisdom worked out, so this earth runs its course so that gradually love is worked out. Then when the earth has reached its goal love will be spread out everywhere, everything will be permeated with love, and the earth will have beings on it who will find love just as we find wisdom in everything that surrounds us. Those who will be on the new embodiment of the earth will stand wonderingly before love, just as we stand in wonderment before wisdom. Our earth has the holy mission of letting flow the impulse of love into things. The impulse is here to fulfil this mission, to make it deed. Thus we have to think of the structure of our earth as the cultivation of love going through the entire earth evolution of man. If we see this then we have a handle for understanding today's question, only we must be clear that man is not the only being around us. You know the spiritual investigator does not speak of the spiritual worlds as of something far off in the clouds, but he speaks of them in a natural and self understood way. A person born blind who has his eyes opened suddenly sees everything flooded with light and radiance. He sees a new world around him which was existing before just as light and colours existed before his eyes were opened. In this world which only an unlogical thinking can deny, other beings are existing with other forms of spirituality than man has. We can form an idea of these spiritual beings by bringing to mind that man is in a continual evolution. He must ascend ever higher and higher. In each incarnat-ion he experiences something, he becomes an ever more perfect being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"39. 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Auf der Vorerde unserer Erde hatten wir eine Verkörperung, wo die Weisheit der Dinge ausgearbeitet wurde, in der sozusagen die Dinge in ihrer Weisheit vorgearbeitet sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1908-02-20/p023"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1908-02-20/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Unsere Erde, welche die Weisheit überkommen hat, was hat sie für eine Aufgabe? Sie hat ihre besondere Mission; so wahr, wie die Vorerde die Weisheit, die uns heute umgibt, Stück für Stück ausgebildet hat, so wahr bildet heute unsere Erde Glied für Glied eine andere kosmische Kraft aus, und diese Kraft ist die Liebe. Deshalb nennen wir in der Geistesforschung die Erde den «Kosmos der Liebe». Die Entwicklung der Erde verläuft so, dass die Liebe als Kraft heraustritt und immer mehr überhandnimmt, und wenn die Erde an ihrem Ziele angelangt ist, so wird alles von der Kraft der Liebe durchdrungen sein, darum nennen wir die Erde den Kosmos der Liebe. Ebenso, wie auf dem vorhergehenden Kosmos der Anfang gemacht wurde mit Unweisheit und nach und nach erst die Gestalt der Weisheit ausgearbeitet wurde, so verläuft auch diese Erde so, dass nach und nach die Liebe sich ausarbeitet; dann, wenn die Erde an ihrem Ziel angelangt sein wird, dann wird die Liebe sich überall ausgebreitet haben und alles wird durchtränkt sein von Liebe, und die Erde wird Wesen auf sich sehen, die ebenso die Liebe finden werden, wie wir die Weisheit finden in allem, was uns umgibt. Diejenigen, die auf der neuen Verkörperung der Erde sind, werden bewundernd stehen vor der Liebe, wie wir bewundernd stehen vor der Weisheit. Unsere Erde hat die heilige Mission, den Drang der Liebe den Dingen einzuflößen. Dieser Drang ist da, diese Mission zu erfüllen, zur Tat zu machen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1908-02-20/p024"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1908-02-20/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"So haben wir uns den Ausbau unserer Erde zu denken als den durch die ganze Erdenentwicklung des Menschen hindurchgehenden Ausbau der Liebe. Wenn wir dies einsehen, so haben wir eine Handhabe zum Verständnis der heutigen Frage. Nur müssen wir uns klar sein, dass der Mensch nicht das einzige Wesen ist, was um uns herum ist. Sie wissen, dass der Geistesforscher nicht spricht von den geistigen Welten als von etwas, was in einem fernen Kuckucksheim ist, sondern er spricht davon im natürlichsten und selbstverständlichsten Sinne. Ebenso wie ein Blindgeborener, dem die Augen geöffnet werden, sieht er plötzlich alles durchflutet von Licht und Glanz. Er sieht eine neue Welt um sich, die immer vorhanden war, wie Licht und Farbe immer vorhanden waren, bevor ihm die Augen geöffnet waren. In dieser Welt, die nur unlogisches Denken ableugnen kann, sind noch andere Wesenheiten vorhanden, mit anderen Formen der Geistigkeit als der Mensch sie hat. Wir können uns eine Vorstellung von diesen geistigen Wesen machen, indem wir uns vor Augen führen, dass der Mensch in einer fortwährenden Entwicklung begriffen ist, wie er immer höher und höher kommen muss und dass er in jeder Verkörperung etwas erfährt und erlebt; er wird ein immer vollkommeneres Wesen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1908-02-20/p025"}],"english":["GA 68a/1908-02-20/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":570,"en_words":715,"ratio":1.25,"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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