{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-26/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I would like to start with an example to show how natural science believes it can approach the riddles of the soul, and how anthroposophy has to approach these riddles in a completely different way. I would like to draw attention to a work that has recently made a great impression in certain circles because it deals with the soul riddle right up to the human question of immortality and breathes a thoroughly scientific spirit. It is the work in which Oliver Lodge wrote about what he was supposedly able to learn about his son Raymond's soul through mediumistic art after his son's death. One may cite this attempt by Oliver Lodge, which is considered a failure for anthroposophy, to penetrate into the soul life up to the question of immortality, because anyone who is familiar with the scientific conscientiousness of natural research will see on every page of I would like to say, can see in every page of this extensive book by Oliver Lodge how the strict methods of natural science are observed, how everything that the natural scientist is accustomed to using in the laboratory or in the physics cabinet is seemingly applied here to the study of the soul. I would like to mention only the experiment that was most striking, and that was almost a kind of “experimentum crucis” for many.","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":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p007","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 darf diesen, für die Anthroposophie durchaus als verfehlt geltenden Versuch Oliver Lodges, in das Seelenleben bis zur Unsterblichkeitsfrage einzudringen, deshalb anführen, weil der, welcher mit der wissenschaftlichen Gewissenhaftigkeit der Naturforschung bekannt ist, jeder Seite — möchte ich sagen — des ausführlichen Buches von Oliver Lodge ansieht, wie dort die strengen naturwissenschaftlichen Methoden gewahrt sind, wie alles, was der Naturforscher gewohnt geworden ist, im Laboratorium oder im physikalischen Kabinett anzuwenden, hier scheinbar auf die Seelenforschung angewendet ist. Ich möchte nur dasjenige Experiment — es sind ihrer viele in dem genannten Buche — anführen, das am meisten frappiert hat, und das geradezu für viele eine Art «experimentum crucis> war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p007"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-26/p007"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":208,"en_words":226,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","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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