{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69a/1911-02-24/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"None of the old clairvoyant wise men would have come up with the idea that the spiritual world is “on top,” that there is a blue firmament, which encloses our world. The old clairvoyants did not think this way; one only misunderstood them later. There one pointed to the fixed starry sky as a kind of bowl that surrounds our world. It was a great moment, when Copernicus pulled the rug out from under the feet of the human beings as it were. It was a great moment when Gordano Bruno expanded this “bowl” into the infinity of the physical space. However, Giordano Bruno put something else beside the sensory picture. We need only to call a few words of Giordano Bruno in mind and we realise that he accomplished the great action to put a spiritual picture beside this sensory picture. He said that everything that surrounds us in the sensory world is rooted in the thoughts of the universal spirit, which manifest in the outer forms, in that which we perceive with the senses. If Giordano Bruno points to the endless cosmic space and looks for the being of the things manifest to the senses, this was for him, nevertheless, nothing but the embodiment of the thoughts of the universal spirit. Giordano Bruno calls the human mental pictures shades of the divine thoughts, not shades of the outer things. If Giordano Bruno turns the physical view to the outer world, the idea of the universal spirit enters into his soul mysteriously, and the human concepts are not shades of the outer sensory things but the thoughts of the universal spirit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-02-24","location":null,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69a/1911-02-24/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2017","book_title":"Truths and Errors in Spiritual Research","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069a/English/eLib2017/19110224p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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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Wir brauchen uns nur ein paar Worte des Giordano Bruno vor die Seele zu rufen und wir werden sehen, daß er die große Tat vollbrachte, neben dieses sinnliche Bild ein geistiges Bild hinzustellen. Er sprach aus, daß alles, was uns umgibt in der sinnlichen Welt, wurzelt in den Gedanken des Geistes der Welt, und das, was in den Gedanken des Geistes der Welt wurzelt, das offenbart sich in der äußeren Form, in dem, was wir mit den Sinnen anschauen. Wenn also Giordano Bruno in den unendlichen Weltenraum hinausweist und das Wesen der Dinge sinnenfällig aufsucht, so war dies für ihn doch nichts anderes als die Verleiblichung der Gedanken des Weltengeistes. Die Vorstellungen des Menschen nennt Giordano Bruno Schatten der Göttergedanken, nicht etwa Schatten der äußeren Dinge. Wenn also Giordano Bruno den physischen Blick auf die äußere Welt richtet, dann geht geheimnisvoll in seine Seele ein der Gedanke des Weltengeistes, und die menschlichen Begriffe sind nicht Schatten der äußeren sinnlichen Dinge, sondern der Gedanken des Weltengeistes. Das ist von unendlicher Wichtigkeit, daß wir in Giordano Bruno einen großen Geist vor uns haben, welcher hinausweist in die Raumesfernen, aber ebenso kräftig auf das, was die menschliche Seele verbindet mit dem Urgeist des Weltendaseins. Prüfen wir, was dem zugrundeliegt in der Seele des Giordano Bruno, so tritt deutlich hervor, daß ihm eine Intelligenz, eine Gesinnung zugrundehegt, die sich durchaus schon vergleichen läßt mit der Intelligenz und der Gesinnung der heutigen Wissenschaft, die aber noch befruchtet war von den Überlieferungen des alten Hellsehens. Man darf sagen, ein Schatten selbst des alten Hellsehens und des Sich-verwandt-Fühlens mit der göttlich-geistigen Welt lebte noch in der Seele des Giordano Bruno. Aber es blieb uns bloß das Bild, das er von der äußeren sinnlichen Welt entwarf, und nicht mehr, was in ihm damals noch lebendig war. Das Bild des alten Hellsehens, das in ihm lebte, verschwand. Man braucht die Entwicklung bloß vorurteilslos bis in unsere Gegenwart hinein zu verfolgen, dann wird man sehen, daß immer mehr und mehr der bloße Intellekt, dieses bloß äußere Anschauen der sinnlichen Welt Verbreitung gefunden hat im allgemeinen normalen Bewußtsein der Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":449,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69a/1911-02-24/p020"}],"english":["GA 69a/1911-02-24/p027","GA 69a/1911-02-24/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":449,"en_words":421,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.9,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5626,"original_word_count":6282,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2017","book_title":"Truths and Errors in Spiritual Research","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069a/English/eLib2017/19110224p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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