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As I said, in the biblical description the transition from one to the other is not always readily recognizable. Only that measure of understanding that can be gained from spiritual scientific principles enables us to recognize: Here, in a biblical account, the will stops describing purely external, physical processes and a sequence of symbolic actions begins, which suggest to us that the personality, which until then did this or that externally, is now undergoing a soul development; it ascends from stage to stage and acquires this or that in its soul life. But it is not the soul life that is described, but symbols are given.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. 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In der Bibel kann uns zum Beispiel irgendeine Gestalt so dargestellt werden, daß sie diese oder jene Reise unternimmt, dies oder jenes tut, und wenn dann die Schilderung fortgeführt wird, sieht es so aus, als ob das, was da weiter geschildert wird, auch äußere Vorgänge seien, während tatsächlich die Schilderungen dieser Vorgänge nun dazu verwendet werden, um innere Seelenkonflikte, innere Seelenentwicklungen, Seelenstufen darzustellen. Die Schilderung der äußeren Vorgänge dient bei gewissen Partien dann nur dazu, um innere Seelenvorgänge zu veranschaulichen. Wie gesagt, es ist in der biblischen Schilderung der Übergang von einem zum andern nicht immer ohne weiteres zu erkennen. Erst jener Takt des Verständnisses, den man aus geisteswissenschaftlichen Grundlagen gewinnen kann, gibt uns die Möglichkeit zu erkennen: Hier hört bei einer biblischen Schilderung der Wille auf, rein äußerliche, physisch zu nehmende Vorgänge zu schildern, und es beginnt eine Reihenfolge von symbolischen Handlungen, die uns andeuten, daß die Persönlichkeit, die bis dahin äußerlich das oder jenes getan hat, jetzt eine Seelenentwicklung durchmacht; sie steigt von Stufe zu Stufe hinauf und eignet sich dieses oder jenes im Seelenleben an. Da wird aber nicht das Seelenleben geschildert, sondern es werden Sinnbilder gegeben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69b/1911-02-13/p007"}],"english":["GA 69b/1911-02-13/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":246,"en_words":232,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7359,"original_word_count":7120,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Knowledge and Immortality","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069b/English/SOL2024/19110213p01.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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