{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p065","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The eye is formed by the mind. It now perceives the material world. The eye [as an organ] will pass away again; but what the eye has seen, the human mind takes with it as fruit, it incorporates it. Likewise, the ears will pass away as organs; but what man has heard with them, his mind takes with it as fruit. Man has formed his organs for a reason; when all material things cease, he will stand as a spiritual being, more mature, more inward, more perfect. [One day everything physical will be perfected; the earth will crumble into separate parts.] That the earth will one day disintegrate is also taught by physics. But what remains [for the materialist] of [the field of corpses] on earth? If we look at it in a materialistic sense, only the barren nothing remains. In the sense of spiritual science, however, we know that everything seen, heard or felt by these sensory organs will remain as the content of the spiritual man, and with this content the man will ascend to a new cosmic existence in other worlds, still unknown.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"34. The Beginning and the End of the Earth","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-16","location":null,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p065","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","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/SOL2024/19071216p01.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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Das Auge [als Organ] wird wieder vergehen; aber was das Auge gesehen hat, das nimmt der menschliche Geist als Frucht mit sich, das verleibt er sich ein. Ebenso werden die Ohren als Organe vergehen; aber was der Mensch mit ihnen gehört hat, das nimmt sein Geist als Frucht mit. Nicht umsonst hat der Mensch sich Organe gebildet; wenn alles Materielle aufhört, wird er dastehen als geistiges Wesen, reifer, innerlicher, vollendeter. [Einstmals wird alles Physische vollendet werden; die Erde wird zerbröckeln in einzelne Teile.] Dass die Erde einmal sich auflösen wird, das lehrt auch die Physik. Was aber bleibt [für den Materialisten] von [dem Leichenfeld] der Erde? Wenn wir es im materialistischen Sinne betrachten, bleibt nur das öde Nichts. Im Sinne der Geisteswissenschaft aber wissen wir: Alles, was durch diese sinnlichen Organe gesehen, gehört, empfunden wurde, das wird bleiben als Inhalt des Geistesmenschen, und mit diesem Inhalt wird der Mensch [in anderen Welten, noch ungekannten] zu einem neuen kosmischen Dasein aufsteigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":173,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p065"}],"english":["GA 68b/1907-12-16/p065"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":173,"en_words":186,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5870,"original_word_count":5628,"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/SOL2024/19071216p01.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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