{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90a/1904-07-18/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Go to the ancient teachings of the Indians and you will come to the original law. This is all that belongs to the Vedas. “Veda means nothing other than ‘sacred knowledge,’ and knowledge in all these ancient times means something that comes from God Himself. However, the significance of this discussion would take us too far afield. The most important part of the Vedas is the Rig-Veda. 'Rig' means 'word', and the teachings of the Rig-Veda were presented in such a way that the great teachers received them from God himself. It is the knowledge, and this knowledge was written down in the Rig-Veda. It is the knowledge that was revealed to the Rishis. Even with the ancient Indians, the word was already understood not only as the spoken word, but also as that by which the word is made. Just as the word is created by sound, so the universe was also formed by the word.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-07-18","location":null,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p032","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090a/English/SOL2024/19040718p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p032"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p032","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Frühe Vortragsreihen und Einzelvorträge für Mitglieder in Berlin 1903–1904 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.","evidence_translation":"Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1903-1904, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.","evidence_source":"The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90a); the description calls them \"Hörermitschriften\", and the served text carries the note-taker's gap marker \"[Lücke in der Mitschrift]\". 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Das ist alles, was zu den Veden gehört. «Veda heißt nichts anderes als «das heilige Wissen, und Wissen bedeutet für all diese alten Zeiten etwas, was von Gott selbst stammt. Die Bedeutung dieser Auseinandersetzung würde uns aber zu weit führen. Der bedeutendste Teil der Veden ist der Rig-Veda. ‹Rig› heißt das ‹Wort›, und die Lehren des Rig-Veda wurden so vorgestellt, dass die großen Lehrer sie von Gott selbst empfangen haben. Es ist das Wissen, und dieses Wissen wurde im Rig-Veda niedergeschrieben. Es ist das Wissen, das den Rishis geoffenbart worden war. Auch bei den alten Indern ist das Wort schon so verstanden worden, dass nicht bloß das Wort ist, das gesprochen wird, sondern das, wodurch das Wort gemacht ist. Wie durch den Schall das Wort geschaffen wird, so wurde durch das Wort auch das Universum gebildet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p032"}],"english":["GA 90a/1904-07-18/p032"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":151,"en_words":157,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6019,"original_word_count":5790,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090a/English/SOL2024/19040718p01.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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