{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-03-29/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"How do we as human beings attain consciousness? When a person sleeps, under ordinary circumstances he has no consciousness; only when he wakes up and, in the familiar way, collides with the world everywhere, does normal consciousness arise, his self-consciousness, in what opposes the soul. Jakob Böhme sees this way of encountering its objects already in the world's divine primal existence, by having it emerge from the dark existence of the Ungrund (the groundlessness). At that time, the divine consciousness could, in Böhme's view, only ignite itself in its opposite, as in the material in the human being. According to Böhme, the divine source arose out of the ungrounded, and thus, with the former, also the good and the evil. Jakob Böhme goes further with this view than with a mere philosophical explanation. Darkness is present without needing an explanation; it is light that needs explanation. Thus Böhme, like Schelling, allows the effects to arise from the dark ungroundedness of the world, which they see as being permeated by the divine-spiritual existence, and which are thrown into the primal ground by the action of the divine. It is remarkable that Jakob Böhme positively recognizes evil and sees it not in the external sense world, but rooted in the foundations of existence, because every divine must raise itself and the world out of the ungrounded.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"18. The Origin of Evil and the Evil in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-03-29","location":null,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-03-29/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","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/SOL2024/19140329p01.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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Diese Art, sich an seinen Gegenständen zu stoßen, erblickt Jakob Böhme schon im göttlichen Urdasein der Welt, indem er dieses aus dem dunklen Dasein des Ungrundes hervorgehen lässt; damals konnte sich das göttliche Bewusstsein, so meint er, nur an seinem Gegensatze entzünden, wie bei dem Menschen am Materiellen. Der göttliche Urgrund entstieg nach Böhme dem vorgöttlichen Ungrunde, und also mit jenem dann auch das Gute und das Böse. Jakob Böhme kommt mit dieser Anschauung weiter als die bloße philosophische Erklärung. Die Dunkelheit ist vorhanden, ohne dass sie eine Erklärung nötig hätte, es bedarf vielmehr das Licht der Erklärung; so lässt denn Böhme, wie auch Schelling, aus dem dunklen Ungrunde der Welt, den sie von dem göttlich-geistigen Dasein durchwallt sehen, die Wirkungen hervorgehen, die unter dem Tun des Göttlichen in das Urgründliche hineingeworfen werden. Merkwürdig ist es, dass Jakob Böhme das Böse positiv erkennt und es nicht in der äußeren Sinneswelt, sondern begründet in den Untergründen des Daseins sieht, weil jedes Göttliche sich und die Welt aus dem Ungrunde erheben muss.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-03-29/p008"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-03-29/p008"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":219,"en_words":224,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4720,"original_word_count":4546,"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/SOL2024/19140329p01.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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