{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-26/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Dear attendees! The riddles of [nature] first approach man insofar as he is a cognizant being and insofar as he has to implement his knowledge in practical life. The riddles of the soul are different. If knowledge is necessary above all for orientation in the world, if we find ourselves in a world that does not want to be illuminated for us through knowledge, so to speak spiritually as in a dark room, then it must be said: the riddles of the soul are those that are experienced directly, but in a way that very many people have no adequate conception of. Today, there is much talk about the unconscious and subconscious life of the soul. However, since we have hardly enough ways to gain more precise ideas about this subconscious life of the soul — as this very evening is intended to show — it is also the case that the profound influence of the soul's riddle on the human being cannot be sufficiently appreciated from the direct consciousness of the present and from what is recognized science in this present. Doubts about those things that are intimately and closely related to the longings and hopes of the human soul life not only bring the person a sense of instability of the soul, they not only rob him of the security of the soul life, they not only take away the strength to find and maintain his position in life in a moral and social sense, but they intervene in the entire inner constitution of the human organism's life as a whole. What is at issue here cannot be fully understood unless one knows that in the deeper layers of the soul there are forces that are initially unknown to the human being – and yet they work in the same way as the conscious forces, but – one might say – they dig deeper into the whole of human nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and the Riddles of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-26","location":null,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p003","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 Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220126p01.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 redet zwar heute sehr viel von dem unbewussten und unterbewussten Seelenleben; da man aber kaum genügende Wege hat, um zu genaueren Vorstellungen über dieses unterbewusste Seelenleben zu kommen — wie gerade der heutige Abend zeigen soll —, so ist es auch so, dass man den tiefgehenden Einfluss, den Seelenrätsel auf den Menschen haben, nicht genügend würdigen kann aus dem unmittelbaren Bewusstsein der Gegenwart heraus und aus dem, was in dieser Gegenwart anerkannte Wissenschaft ist. Zweifel an denjenigen Dingen, die intim und innig mit den Sehnsuchten und Hoffnungen des menschlichen Seelenlebens zusammenhängen, sie bringen dem Menschen nicht nur Haltlosigkeit der Seele, sie rauben ihm nicht nur die Sicherheit des seelischen Lebens, sie nehmen ihm nicht nur die Kraft, in sittlicher, in sozialer Beziehung seine Stellung im Leben zu finden und zu wahren, sondern sie greifen in die ganze innere Verfassung des Gesamtlebens des menschlichen Organismus ein. Was da vorliegt, durchschaut man durchaus nicht ganz, wenn man nicht weiß, dass es in den tieferen Untergründen des Seelenlebens Kräfte gibt, die dem Menschen zunächst unbekannt sind — und dennoch so arbeiten, wie nur die bewussten Kräfte arbeiten, aber — man möchte sagen — tiefer hineinwühlen in die ganze menschliche Natur.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p003"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-26/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":303,"en_words":322,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9357,"original_word_count":8959,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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