{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-05-16/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Yes, my dear audience, in the course of historical development, humanity has changed more than we realize today in terms of the life of the soul. What today, I might say, makes up our whole consciousness was quite different in ancient times. Today we see the external world by absorbing the colors through the sense of our eyes in a, I might say, pure way; we hear the external world through the sense of the ear, absorbing the sounds in a certain purity, and it is the same with the other sensations. It was not like that in ancient times. We misunderstand the senses of early humanity if we say that they fantasized their way into the world, as animism would have it. It was not like that. Early humans naturally experienced what was in the outer world as a living spiritual soul striving up within them. And by looking at lightning and thunder, at the hurrying clouds, at the streaming wind, springs, plants and animals, they saw everything that surrounded people in the outer world. They saw not only a colorful, warm, cold or otherwise sensually shaped world, as we do today. No, they saw a world in which every spring was permeated by the spiritual soul, in every breath of wind that played around them, in the stars, in the sun and moon they felt how the spiritual soul expressed itself. It was just as natural for people to see this spiritual soul as it is natural for us to see colors and hear sounds. That was the usual experience of the people around the yogi. The yogi, however, wanted to experience a different world than the one they usually experienced. That is why he undertook the exercises I have just described. And by driving the conscious flow of breath through his thinking through these exercises, I would say, he made something completely different out of his thinking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-05-16","location":null,"word_count":320,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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Wir begreifen die Sinne der älteren Menschheit nicht, wenn wir sagen, sie hätten sich phantastisch, wie es der Animismus möchte, in die Welt hineingeträumt. So war es nicht. Die älteren Menschen erlebten wie selbstverständlich dasjenige in sich aufstreben, was als ein lebendiges Geistig-Seelisches in der Außenwelt war, und indem sie hinschauten auf Blitz und Donner, auf die eilenden Wolken, auf den strömenden Wind, auf Quellen, Pflanzen und Tiere, auf alles dasjenige, was den Menschen in der äußeren Natur umgab, sahen sie nicht nur wie wir heute eine farbige, warme, kalte oder sonst wie sinnlich geartete Welt. Nein, sie sahen eine Welt, in der jeder Quell durchzogen war vom Geistig-Seelischen, in jedem Windhauch, der sie umspielte, in den Sternen, in Sonne und Mond fühlten sie, wie sich ausdrückte Geistig-Seelisches. Es war den Menschen ebenso natürlich, dieses Geistig-Seelische zu sehen, wie uns es natürlich ist, die Farben zu sehen, die Töne zu hören. So war das gewöhnliche Erleben für die Menschheit, die die Umgebung des Yogi bildete. Der Yogi wollte eine andere Welt als diese gewöhnlich erlebte. Deshalb unternahm er die Übungen, die ich eben geschildert habe, und indem er durch diese Übungen — ich möchte sagen - den bewussten Atemstrom durch sein Denken trieb, machte er aus seinem Denken etwas ganz anderes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":316,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p016"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-05-16/p016"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":316,"en_words":320,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9395,"original_word_count":9183,"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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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