{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-05-16/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I can characterize this in the following way. While we are here between birth and death, we look out into the outer world, we look up into the cosmos, admire the stars, admire the glory of the sun and moon; we look at the kingdoms of nature, we see more and more of the wonderful laws that live in all of this through our science. But by looking out there and looking back at ourselves in an unbiased way, at what is within us, we have to say to ourselves: Dark is what the human being sees between birth and death in the ordinary consciousness when he looks into his inner being. We have to say: what lives in there as our organism – certainly, some of it, but only in its deadness, shows anatomy, physiology – but anthroposophy shows that the human being has a world in there in a completely different sense than ordinary science shows us. When we really get to know what is inside us, we will say to ourselves: Yes, the air we breathe and its inner laws are wonderful, but what goes on in our own lungs as laws is more wonderful than this air circle with all its secrets. The sun is wonderful out there with all the effects that emanate from it, which express themselves in light and warmth, but more wonderful than the light, than the currents of warmth, more wonderful than all that is what lives inside the human organism, in the structure of our heart. And so, when we look at the human interior in terms of the bodily organization, we can say to ourselves: great and powerful is the world of external knowledge; greater and more powerful is that which lives in us as a microcosm.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-05-16","location":null,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p036","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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Indem wir hier zwischen Geburt und Tod stehen, schauen wir in die äußere Welt, wir blicken hinauf in den Kosmos, bewundern die Sterne, bewundern die Herrlichkeit von Sonne und Mond; wir blicken hin auf die Reiche der Natur, wir schauen die wunderbaren Gesetzmäßigkeiten durch unsere Wissenschaft immer mehr und mehr, die in alledem leben. Aber indem wir da hinausschauen und in unbefangener Weise auf uns selbst zurückblicken auf dasjenige, was in unserem Inneren ist, müssen wir uns sagen: Finster ist das, was da der Mensch zwischen Geburt und Tod im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein erblickt, wenn er in sein Inneres hineinschaut. Wir müssen schon sagen: Was da drinnen lebt als unser Organismus — gewiss, einiges davon, aber eben nur in seiner Totheit, zeigt die Anatomie, die Physiologie — aber gerade Anthroposophie zeigt, dass der Mensch in einem ganz anderen Sinne da drinnen eine Welt hat, als es uns die gewöhnliche Wissenschaft zeigt. Lernt man das wirklich kennen, was da drinnen ist, dann wird man sich sagen: Ja, wunderbar ist da draußen der Luftkreis und seine inneren Gesetzmäßigkeiten, aber wunderbarer als dieser Luftkreis mit all seinen Geheimnissen ist dasjenige, was in unserer eigenen Lunge als Gesetzmäßigkeiten vor sich geht. Wunderbar ist da draußen die Sonne mit all den Wirkungen, die von ihr ausgehen, die sich in Licht und Wärme ausdrücken, aber wunderbarer als das Licht, als die Wärmeströmungen, wunderbarer als alles das ist dasjenige, was da drinnen lebt in dem menschlichen Organismus, in dem Bau unseres Herzens. Und so können wir, wenn wir auf das menschliche Innere gerade in Bezug auf die Leibesorganisation sehen, so können wir uns sagen: Groß und gewaltig die Welt des äußeren Erkennens; größer und gewaltiger dasjenige, was als ein Mikrokosmos in uns lebt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":292,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p036"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-05-16/p036"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":292,"en_words":298,"ratio":1.02,"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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