{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90b/1905-10-22/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us retrace our path of development a little. What was there once? A dull human consciousness. The world around us looked different and was a dreamlike mirror. People had a dreaming consciousness. And even as the development of their community progressed, they had no parliaments based on the exchange of opinions, nothing of the kind. Everything was merely reflected in the consciousness that arose in the human being. And today's bodily organs: how did they come about? Through the fact that those forces worked on human beings. Just as the animals in the dark caves of Kentucky lost their eyesight because they did not need it, so the external forces also organized what we have as eyes and ears. These have been developed and evolved out of our organism by the forces of sound and light. In the future, our spiritual organism will develop out of what is now living in us. The things that stand before us as expressions of our spiritual culture – the churches and so on, the cultural works that convey beauty and truth to us – will imprint themselves on our higher being. And when these will one day unfold into a life of their own, then what lives as beauty and truth in the outer culture will arise within us. What the eyes and ears perceive now are the building blocks for the organization of a higher future. If we look at the world from this point of view, the human inner life takes on a completely different meaning.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XVII. The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement","site_heading":null,"date":"1905-10-22","location":null,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90b/1905-10-22/p029","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/SOL2024/19051022p01.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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Und auch als die Entwicklung ihres Gemeinwesens weiterschritt, hatten sie keine Parlamente, die auf Meinungsaustausch beruhten, nichts Derartiges hatten sie. Es spiegelte sich bloß alles in dem Bewusstsein, das im Menschen aufstieg. Und die heutigen Körperorgane: Wodurch sind sie entstanden? Dadurch, dass jene Kräfte an den Menschen gearbeitet haben. So wie die Tiere in den finsteren Höhlen von Kentucky ihre Sehkraft verloren, weil sie sie nicht brauchten, so organisierten die äußeren Kräfte auch dasjenige, was wir als Auge und als Ohr haben. Diese sind durch die Schall- und Lichtkräfte ausgebildet und aus unserem Organismus herausentwickelt worden. Aus dem, was jetzt in uns lebt, wird sich unser geistiger Organismus in der Zukunft entwickeln. Diejenigen Dinge, die als Ausdruck unserer spirituellen Kultur vor uns stehen, die Kirchen und so weiter, die Kulturwerke, die uns Schönheit und Wahrheit vermitteln, sie werden sich einprägen in unsere höheren Wesensglieder. Und wenn diese sich einst entfalten werden zu einem selbsteigenen Leben, dann wird das, was als Schönheit und Wahrheit in der äußeren Kultur lebt, in unserem Inneren aufsteigen. Was Augen und Ohren jetzt wahrnehmen, das sind Bausteine für die Organisierung einer höheren Zukunft. Betrachten wir die Welt von diesem Gesichtspunkt aus, dann gewinnt das menschliche Innere eine ganz andere Bedeutung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90b/1905-10-22/p029"}],"english":["GA 90b/1905-10-22/p029"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":239,"en_words":256,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8023,"original_word_count":7678,"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/SOL2024/19051022p01.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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