{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-01-21/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What is an independent soul? Look at the universe, the cosmos. Look at the living beings! They are all connected to their environment; this connection becomes looser the higher we go in the evolutionary scale. The living beings become more independent, and humans are the most independent of all. He confronts the cosmos as a being that can act independently. But he, too, has outgrown this universe. Is it not the case that we can make the whole thing clear to ourselves through a very simple comparison? Take a glass of water; there are many drops in it. Each drop is contained in this mass of water without us being able to distinguish it from the mass. But if you single it out, if it becomes independent, then it presents itself as something independent of the whole, and if it were to develop forces within itself, then we could compare its position to the position of man in the cosmos. As long as the drop is in the whole of the water in it, it expresses those currents that come out of the mass. Having become independent, it has an effect back, like an opposing force on the mass.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. How Do We Understand Illness and Death?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-01-21","location":null,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-01-21/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19070121p01.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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Selbstständig werden die Lebewesen, am selbstständigsten ist der Mensch. Er stellt sich als ein durch sich frei bewegliches Wesen dem Kosmos gegenüber. Aber auch er ist aus diesem Universum ja herausgewachsen. Ist es nicht so, dass wir uns das Ganze durch einen sehr einfachen Vergleich klarmachen können? Nehmen Sie ein Glas Wasser; viele Tropfen sind darin. Ein jeglicher Tropfen ist in dieser Wassermasse enthalten, ohne dass wir ihn unterscheiden können von der Masse. Wenn Sie ihn aber herausheben, wenn er selbstständig wird, dann stellt er sich als erwas Unabhängiges gegenüber dem Ganzen dar, und könnte er Kräfte in sich entwickeln, dann würden wir seine Stellung vergleichen können mit der Stellung des Menschen zum Kosmos. Solange der Tropfen im ganzen Wasser darinnen ist, drückt er diejenigen Strömungen aus, die aus der Masse herauskommen. Selbstständig geworden, wirkt er zurück, wie eine entgegengesetzte Kraft auf die Masse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-01-21/p015"}],"english":["GA 68b/1907-01-21/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":179,"en_words":199,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7057,"original_word_count":6652,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19070121p01.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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