{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p049","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"That was what I wanted to present to your soul through today's contemplation, based on the essence of this spiritual science, and what I would now like to summarize in a few words, saying: a more intimate contemplation of the position of anthroposophy and the world brings us to a very special view of the relationship between natural death and spiritual life. But we can only gain such an insight if we fulfill what Anthroposophy basically calls out to us from the deeper nature of the world itself, by saying: Human being, if you want to recognize that which lives immortal in the spirit, first enliven your own world of knowledge. If you want to grasp life in the spirit, first enliven your knowledge within you. Understand what it means when it is said not in dead but in living concepts. Rise up from that which, as dead matter, needs a support, to that which, as spiritual, moves freely in the spiritual, in the spiritual worlds, which is not bound to that which lives and weaves in the transitory, which lives in itself and which can be grasped can be grasped by man when he presents the great, significant antitheses before his soul: natural death in itself, the spiritual life that he can grasp when he frees himself from that which is bound to the transitory in earthly life!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Natural Death and Spiritual Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-02-12","location":null,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p049","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19220212p01.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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Willst du das Leben im Geiste erfassen, belebe in dir erst deine Erkenntnis. Verstehe, was es heißt, wenn gesprochen wird nicht in toten, sondern in lebendigen Begriffen. Schwinge dich auf von demjenigen, was als Totes Unterlage braucht, zu demjenigen, was als Geistiges frei sich im Geistigen, in den geistigen Welten bewegt, was nicht gebunden ist an dasjenige, was in der Vergänglichkeit webt und west, was in sich selber lebt und was erfasst werden kann, wenn der Mensch gerade die großen, bedeutsamen Gegenpole vor seine Seele stellt: den natürlichen Tod an sich selbst, das geistige Leben, das er fassen kann, wenn er sich freimacht von demjenigen, was an das Vergängliche im irdischen Leben gebunden ist!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p048"}],"english":["GA 80b/1922-02-12/p049"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":224,"en_words":229,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8163,"original_word_count":7949,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19220212p01.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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