{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There are as many worlds in infinity as a being has organs to perceive them. [We will see in later lectures that] man, as he once had the disposition in primeval times to the eyes, which at that time could not yet see, but became seeing in the course of development, that all men have the disposition to what is called in spiritual science with Goethe, “the spiritual ears, the spiritual eyes”. Spiritual eyes and ears are present in man as a predisposition and can be developed. This is the purpose of spiritual science, that it gives people the methods to be able to enter the state that is related to the blind-born, [who can be] operated on, [to the world of colors and light, and] of course someone who knows nothing about it should not decide anything about such a world, [but] the only thing that can be said is that this is there, what can be perceived. And it is not only people of the future who can perceive these higher worlds that are around us, but these methods can be applied to people of the present.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. The Origin of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-31","location":null,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p033","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/SOL2024/19071031p01.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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[Wir werden in späteren Vorträgen sehen, dass] der Mensch, wie er einstmals in Urzeit die Anlage hatte zu den Augen, die damals noch nicht sehen konnten, aber sehend wurden im Laufe der Entwicklung, dass alle Menschen die Anlage zu dem haben, was man in der Geisteswissenschaft mit Goethe nennt, «die geistigen Ohren, die geistigen Augen». Geistige Augen und Ohren sind in Anlage im Menschen vorhanden und können entwickelt werden. Das ist Absicht der Geisteswissenschaft, dass diese den Menschen die Methoden gibt, in den Zustand kommen zu können, der sich verhält wie der Blindgeborene, [den man] operieren [kann], [zu der Welt der Farben und des Lichtes, und] über eine solche Welt darf [natürlich] der nichts entscheiden, der nichts von ihr weiß, [sondern] einzig und allein das kann eine gesunde Erkenntnistheorie sein, die sagt, das ist da, was wahrgenommen werden kann. Und es sind dies nicht nur Menschen der Zukunft, die wahrnehmen können diese höheren Welten, die um uns herum sind, sondern diese Methoden können angewendet werden auf Menschen der Gegenwart.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p031"}],"english":["GA 68b/1907-10-31/p033"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":184,"en_words":189,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8044,"original_word_count":7712,"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/SOL2024/19071031p01.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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