{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70a/1914-12-02/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It cannot be said that this spiritual experience, of which this is spoken, this spiritual science, has not always been dormant in the best minds of human development; our time only seems to be called upon to highlight what has been dormant in the best minds as real knowledge. If you want to be a truly enlightened person, you can look to a man like Lessing, admire him and say: Well, he has achieved extraordinary things, but even at the end of his life, like his spiritual testament, he also wrote “The Education of the Human Race”, and in this ‘Education of the Human Race’ he also put forward the hypothesis that man not only lives on the physical earth once, but goes through this life in repeated earthly lives. There he has grown old, one can say, there he has already become weak. Of course, one can feel very enlightened in such an assessment; but as natural as such an assessment may still be in our time, it is no different from the progress of humanity than the judgment that was held before Copernicus: the earth stands still, the sun moves around it and must move, and that was brought to Copernicus as a prejudice.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. The Human Soul, Destiny and Death from the Point of View of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-12-02","location":null,"word_count":206,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70a/1914-12-02/p031","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":"The Human Soul, Fate and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070a/English/SOL2024/19141202p01.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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Man kann, wenn man ein ganz aufgeklärter Mensch sein will, auf einen Menschen wie Lessing hinblicken, ihn bewundern und sagen: Nun ja, er hat außerordentlich Großes geschaffen, aber da hat er auch noch am Ende seines Lebens wie sein geistiges Testament «Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts» geschrieben, und in dieser «Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts» hat er auch von sich aus als Hypothese vertreten, dass der Mensch nicht nur einmal auf der physischen Erde lebt, sondern in wiederholten Erdenleben dieses Leben durchläuft. Da ist [er] eben alt geworden, kann man sagen, da ist er schon schwach geworden. Gewiss, man kann sich sehr aufgeklärt fühlen in einer solchen Beurteilung; aber so natürlich solch eine Beurteilung für unsere Zeit noch sein mag, sie ist gegenüber dem Fortschritt der Menschheit doch nicht anders als jenes Urteil, das man vor Kopernikus gehabt hat: die Erde stehe still, die Sonne bewege sich um sie und müsse sich bewegen, und das man als Vorurteil entgegengebracht hat dem Kopernikus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70a/1914-12-02/p031"}],"english":["GA 70a/1914-12-02/p031"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":207,"en_words":206,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9215,"original_word_count":8807,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul, Fate and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070a/English/SOL2024/19141202p01.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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