{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 92/1904-06-24/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Chinese are a remnant of the Atlantean Mongol race. When we hear the word Tao in Chinese, it is something difficult for us to understand. The Mongols of that time had developed a form of monotheism that went as far as the psychic tangibility, as far as the feeling of the spiritual. When the old Chinese, the old Mongols, pronounced the word Tao, they felt it when they pronounced it. Tao is not “the way”, as it is usually translated, it is the fundamental power by which the Atlanteans could still transform plants, by which they could set their remarkable airships in motion. This basic power, also called “Vril”, was used everywhere by the Atlanteans, and they called it their god. They felt this power within themselves; it was “the way and the goal” for them. Therefore, every Mongolian considered himself to be an instrument in the hands of the great Vril power.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Good and Evil","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-06-24","location":null,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/92/1904-06-24/p012","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":"The Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA092/English/SOL2024/19040624p01.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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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":"Sechzehn Vorträge, gehalten in Berlin, Köln und Nürnberg in den Jahren 1904, 1905 und 1907 (Hörernotizen)","evidence_translation":"Sixteen lectures, given in Berlin, Cologne and Nuremberg in 1904, 1905 and 1907 (listeners' notes)","evidence_source":"The volume's subtitle as given in the publisher's description, mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 92); the 2022 catalogue's subtitle omits it. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 92/1904-06-24/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Die Chinesen sind ein Rest der atlantischen Rasse der Mongolen. Wenn wir bei den Chinesen das Wort TAO hören, so ist das für uns etwas schwer Verständliches. Die damaligen Mongolen hatten einen Monotheismus ausgebildet, der bis zur psychischen Greifbarkeit, bis zum Fühlen des Geistigen ging, und wenn der alte Chinese, der alte Mongole, das Wort TAO aussprach, so fühlte er das beim Aussprechen. TAO ist nicht «der Weg», wie das gewöhnlich übersetzt wird, es ist die Grundkraft, durch die der Atlantier noch die Pflanzen verwandeln konnte, durch die er seine merkwürdigen Luftschiffe in Bewegung setzen konnte. Diese Grundkraft, die man auch «Vril» nennt, hat der Atlantier überall genutzt, und er nannte sie seinen Gott. Er fühlte diese Kraft in sich, sie war ihm «der Weg und das Ziel». Daher hat jeder Mongole sich als ein Werkzeug in der Hand der großen Vril-Kraft betrachtet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":143,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1904-06-24/p012"}],"english":["GA 92/1904-06-24/p012"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":143,"en_words":154,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2087,"original_word_count":2021,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA092/English/SOL2024/19040624p01.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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