{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1913-03-09/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A spirit of the present who has actually shown how he tries to penetrate the supersensible everywhere, and who has also shown in some of his writings how serious he is about this, has recently been concerned, among other things, with what has been described here as the doctrine of repeated earthly lives: Maurice Maeterlinck – a passage that I would like to quote verbatim. He has no idea where the evidence lies, so he calls it mere belief. Spiritual science has nothing to do with belief, but, like the worldview of Copernicus, it has everything to do with belief because it is science, like Copernicanism; it does not interfere with belief. But Maeterlinck considers it a belief, and the doctrine of repeated earthly lives, which is the same as what is known in certain religious doctrines as the transmigration of souls — which, however, is not what is meant here, but rather the doctrine of repeated earthly lives — is alive. In his book “On Death,” Maeterlinck writes:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-03-09","location":null,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p027","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":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19130309p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p027"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p027","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"mixed_sources","scope":"volume","note":"This volume draws on more than one kind of record (transcripts, notes, documents). 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Aber Maeterlinck hält sie für einen Glauben, und die Lehre von den wiederholten Erdenleben, das sei dasselbe, was in bestimmten Glaubenslehren man als die Seelenwanderung kenne - was aber das hier Gemeinte nicht ist, sondern es ist [eben] die Lehre von den wiederholten Erdenleben -, dies sei lebendig. In seinem Buch «Vom Tode» schreibt Maeterlinck:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p027"}],"english":["GA 69d/1913-03-09/p027"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":167,"en_words":169,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7380,"original_word_count":7148,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19130309p01.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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