{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-03-29/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus, when we approach the mystery of the life of evil people, we see that we must apply spiritual scientific forces that show how evil must be regarded in its true nature as justified, even though it can also be experienced as good in its equally true meaning in another world. The events of the sensory world and the history of human thought teach us that those who remain in the sensory world cannot explain how pain and evil can penetrate it. Schopenhauer and Hartmann, in their pessimistic worldview, explain well how evil predominates in the world, but they do not quite manage to say how, in their opinion, the divine-spiritual source can be freed from the evils of existence and how the human soul can be freed from evil. Wherever evil, pain, suffering, and so on appear in the physical world, the spiritual researcher finds that all this suffering appears as a seed for a development that is only to take place later in the spiritual world. We can illustrate this again with an analogy – [not to rely on it, because spiritual science does not rely on analogies, but on facts]: When a desperate person throws himself in front of a speeding locomotive, two spheres of the sensory world collide [which are incompatible with each other]: What is necessary for the unfortunate person to continue living is crushed, and the forces of the locomotive, which are otherwise beneficial, push themselves onto others with whom they are incompatible. But if the person rises in time, they could also be saved, and the forces of the locomotive could remain effective in a good sense; the soul of this person would be able to draw new strength from its sudden change of heart to make a new start in a further stage of life and recover completely.","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":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-03-29/p015","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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Schopenhauer und Hartmann legen in ihrer pessimistischen Weltanschauung wohl dar, wie das Übel in der Welt überwiegt, kommen aber doch nicht recht dazu, sagen zu können, wie denk nach ihrer Meinung sich der göttlich-geistige Urgrund von den Übeln des Daseins und wie die Menschenseele sich von dem Bösen befreien kann. Der Geistesforscher findet da, wo Böses, Übel, Schmerz, Leid und so weiter in der physischen Welt auftritt, durch dieses in der geistigen Welt, dass all das Leid als ein Keim erscheint für eine Entwicklung, die später erst erfolgen soll. Wir können uns dieses wieder durch eine Analogie - [nicht, um mich darauf zu stützen, denn auf Analogien stützt sich die Geisteswissenschaft nicht, sondern auf Tatsachen] - klarmachen: Wenn sich ein verzweifelter Mensch vor eine daherbrausende Lokomotive wirft, so geraten zwei Sphären der sinnlichen Welt in Kollision, [die unverträglich miteinander sind]: Was für das Weiterleben des Unglücklichen notwendig ist, wird zermalmt, die Kräfte der Lokomotive, die sonst heilsam sind, schieben sich mit anderen übereinander, mit denen sie zusammen unverträglich sind. Aber es könnte auch der Mensch, wenn er sich rechtzeitig erhebt, gerettet werden, und die Kräfte der Lokomotive könnten im guten Sinne wirksam bleiben, die Seele dieses Menschen würde aus ihrer plötzlichen Sinnesänderung neue Kraft zum neuen Beginn eines weiteren Lebensabschnittes schöpfen können und daran völlig gesunden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-03-29/p015"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-03-29/p015"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":298,"en_words":306,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 69d/1914-03-29/p015"]},"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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