{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-26/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to say first to show that one must indeed have ideas about the way in which people in the nineteenth century wanted to approach the riddles of the soul, how, so to speak, the soul are today's burning questions, and how the peculiarities of intellectual life in the most diverse regions of the earth present obstacles and hindrances to finding completely unimpeded paths into the regions in which the eternal of the human soul is rooted. At first, the human being appears to us as a unified being. And this is fully justified. But in this unified being, we must seek out the forms of reality that have entered into it. The way in which anthroposophy attempts to do this is often challenged by those who call themselves abstract monists or the like. Anthroposophy does not in any way offend against a justified monism. For no one denies that there is a unified activity in water when one shows how oxygen and hydrogen are effectively present in water. Nor does one deny what we encounter as a unified human nature when one conscientiously searches scientifically for the forms of reality that converge in human nature. But these forms of reality converge in a mysterious way. We see, when we devote ourselves to our external sensory observations and deepen these through recognized science, through physiology, biology and so on, the external physical corporeality of the human being. On the other hand, we see how the soul reveals itself out of this physical corporeality, how it permeates the physical corporeality, enlivens it and allows the spirit to flow into it.","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":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p017","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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Aber in diesem einheitlichen Wesen muss man das aufsuchen, was an Wirklichkeitsformen eingetreten ist in diesem einheitlichen Wesen. Die Art und Weise, wie dies von der Anthroposophie versucht wird, wird vielfach angefochten von denjenigen Menschen, die sich in einer abstrakten Weise Monisten oder dergleichen nennen. Anthroposophie sündigt in keiner Weise gegen einen berechtigten Monismus. Denn man verleugnet nicht, dass im Wasser eine einheitliche Wirksamkeit ist, wenn man aufzeigt, wie Sauerstoff und Wasserstoff im Wasser wirksam vorhanden sind. Ebenso wenig verleugnet man das, was uns als einheitliche Menschennatur entgegentritt, wenn man die Wirklichkeitsformen gewissenhaft wissenschaftlich aufsucht, die in der Menschennatur zusammenströmen. Aber diese Wirklichkeitsformen strömen eben in rätselhafter Weise zusammen. Wir sehen, wenn wir uns unsern äußeren sinnlichen Beobachtungen hingeben und diese durch die anerkannte Wissenschaft, durch Physiologie, Biologie und so weiter vertiefen, die äußere physische Leiblichkeit des Menschen. Auf der anderen Seite sehen wir, wie sich aus dieser physischen Leiblichkeit heraus das Seelische offenbart, wie es die physische Leiblichkeit durchdringt, sie belebt und den Geist in sie hineinströmen lässt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p017"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-26/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":272,"en_words":274,"ratio":1.01,"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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