{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90b/1906-01-10/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The truth that man seeks has been the same at all times; but people are not always the same; and so, at all times, depending on the development of humanity, the answers to the questions about truth have been given differently. The school of thought that wants to give us the answer to the question about the eternal in a way that is appropriate today is called the theosophical one. It has come to fruition in the last four decades.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXVIII. The Transient and the Eternal","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-10","location":null,"word_count":80,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90b/1906-01-10/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","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/SOL2024/19060110p01.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/90b/1906-01-10/p004"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90b/1906-01-10/p004","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 1905–1906 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.","evidence_translation":"Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1905-1906, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.","evidence_source":"The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90b); the description calls them \"Hörermitschriften\", and the served text carries the note-taker's gap marker \"[Lücke in der Mitschrift]\". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-01-10","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 90b/1906-01-10/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90b/1906-01-10/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":280,"en_words":292,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 90b/1906-01-10/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Die Wahrheit, welche der Mensch sucht, ist zu allen Zeiten dieselbe gewesen; aber die Menschen sind nicht immer dieselben; und so sind zu allen Zeiten, je nach der Entwicklung der Menschheit, die Antworten auf die Fragen nach der Wahrheit verschieden gegeben worden. Die Geistesrichtung, welche uns heutzutage die Antwort auf die Frage nach dem Ewigen in heute angebrachter Weise geben will, nennt man die theosophische. Sie ist in den letzten vier Jahrzehnten zur Entfaltung gelangt. «Theosophie heißt wörtlich: Gottesweisheit. Das meint die heutige Bewegung aber nicht, dass wir Weisheit von Gott erhalten wollten; die Gottheit, nach der wir ausschauen, ist auch für den Theosophen dasjenige, dem er sich fortwährend nähern will, das er aber nicht mit Begriffen umfassen kann; denn es kommen Zeiten, wo wir ganz andere, viel höhere Erkenntnisse haben werden von dem Gottesbegriff, von dem, wozu wir aufschauen. Es wäre also vermessen, mit den heutigen Fähigkeiten die Gottheit umfassen zu wollen. Ebenso wenig können wir von der Zukunft sagen, dass sie es tun wird. Die Weisheit von Gott verbreiten, das will die Theosophie; eine andere Art der Erkenntnis will sie einleiten. Das, was der Mensch mit den Sinnen wahrnehmen und mit dem Verstande kombinieren kann, nennt er Erkenntnis. Aber betrachten wir nun einmal, wie viel noch in der Seele vorhanden ist, wenn wir abschen von alledem, was wir einen Tag über an dem gegebenen Ort - Lugano - und der gegebenen Zeit - heute - erleben. Ganz anders würden wir empfinden, wenn wir statt in Lugano, etwa in Moskau - statt heute, vor hundert Jahren lebten. Lassen Sie uns also das an Ort und Zeit Gebundene einmal abwerfen und suchen, wie viel dann in der Seele noch bleibt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90b/1906-01-10/p004"}],"english":["GA 90b/1906-01-10/p004","GA 90b/1906-01-10/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":280,"en_words":292,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.1,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4052,"original_word_count":3695,"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/SOL2024/19060110p01.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."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 90b/1906-01-10/p004"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}