{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69b/1911-02-13/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In contrast to this, we can say that it is only through the presentation of spiritual science that the details of the Bible are illuminated in a wonderful way and that the Bible takes on a new value. For now we approach the Bible as a person familiar with mathematical laws approaches a mathematical problem. Those who do not know the mathematical laws see nothing in them but incomprehensible signs, just as they see in problems. Those who do not know the language of the Bible also see only incomprehensible things in it today, perhaps childish images that prehistoric man conjured up. But anyone who gets to know the basics that spiritual science provides and, with its help, deciphers the religious documents, feels something of what has been going on so magnificently through the ages. They feel the language of the nations, of the people in whose souls the spiritual impulses for the progress of humanity are living, that choir of humanity's leading spirits that communicate across the millennia. It is a wonderful phenomenon when the spiritual researcher peers into the spiritual worlds and then looks at the Bible and realizes from the Bible that it tells us something that we can also find through spiritual research ourselves. So we cannot but say: Whoever wrote this must have known what is going on in the spiritual worlds and what is there if such human progress as we now have before us could happen at all.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. Moses, His Teaching and His Mission","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-02-13","location":null,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69b/1911-02-13/p041","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":"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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Wer aber die Grundlagen kennenlernt, die die Geisteswissenschaft gibt, und mit ihrer Hilfe die religiösen Urkunden entziffert, der fühlt etwas von dem, was so großartig durch die Zeiten geht, der fühlt die Sprache der Völker, der Menschen, in deren Seelen sich die geistigen Impulse zum Fortschritt der Menschheit hineinleben, jenen Chor von führenden Geistern der Menschheit, die über die Jahrtausende hinüber sich verständigen. Es ist ein wunderbares Phänomen, wenn der Geistesforscher hineinblickt in die geistigen Welten und dann in die Bibel schaut und aus der Bibel heraus darauf kommt, daß uns da etwas erzählt wird, was wir durch die Geistesforschung auch selber finden können. So können wir nicht anders als sagen: Wer das geschrieben hat, der mußte wissen, was in den geistigen Welten vorgeht und was da zu sein hat, wenn solch ein Menschheitsfortschritt, wie wir ihn jetzt vor uns haben, überhaupt geschehen konnte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69b/1911-02-13/p042"}],"english":["GA 69b/1911-02-13/p041"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":229,"en_words":245,"ratio":1.07,"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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