{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90b/1905-01-30/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Within the theosophical movement itself, an apparent contradiction arises with regard to this teaching of the development of our earth. When the great teachers of the theosophical movement, whom we call the masters, first shared some of the secret knowledge with European students, so-called lay chelas, it was actually this European lay student, our revered friend Sinnett, who wrote the first effective book, Esoteric Buddhism, based on the master's teachings. There was a great deal that was unclear to this lay disciple. This was to be expected, for all European thinking differs quite significantly from the way an actual occultist, an actual esoteric, thinks. A person who is equipped with European cultural concepts - and you must not forget that the modern human being grows up entirely in the prejudices of the present day - easily misunderstands what the esotericist is saying because he translates it into his concepts, which are derived from materialism. Thus there was a certain initial disparity when the exalted master gave the first teachings to Sinnett through the mediation of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky about the development of our earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology I","site_heading":null,"date":"1905-01-30","location":null,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90b/1905-01-30/p009","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":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090b/English/SOL2024/19050130p01.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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Derjenige, der mit europäischen Kulturbegriffen ausgerüstet ist - und Sie dürfen nicht vergessen, dass der jetzige Mensch ganz in den Vorurteilen der heutigen Zeit aufwächst -, versteht schr leicht falsch, was der Esoteriker sagt, weil er es übersetzt in seine vom Materialismus hergenommenen Begriffe. So lag zunächst ein gewisses Missverhältnis zugrunde, als der erhabene Meister an Sinnett durch die Vermittlung von Helena Petrovna Blavatsky die ersten Lehren über die Entwicklung unserer Erde gab.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90b/1905-01-30/p009"}],"english":["GA 90b/1905-01-30/p009"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":177,"en_words":184,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4295,"original_word_count":4215,"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 II","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090b/English/SOL2024/19050130p01.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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