{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I shall here repeat certain teachings of Spiritual Science which will help you to understand these things. We know that the world evolves and that in the course of its evolution certain beings are continually destined to be thrust down. There is a law of which we learn in Spiritual Science, namely, that every stage of higher evolution is connected with a fall. Later on, compensation is made, but for every saint, a sinner must arise. Strange as this may appear it is nevertheless true, because the necessary equilibrium has to be maintained. Every ascent involves a descent and this implies that at a later stage, the powers of the being who has ascended in evolution must be used for the redemption of the other. If there were no such co-operation between beings, there would be no evolution. Thus is the flux of evolution maintained. And a picture of one human being sacrificing himself for another reminds us of the mysterious link that is created by the ascent of the one and the descent of the other. Such truths can only be expressed with the greatest delicacy. Richard Wagner realised and understood the mysterious thread that binds soul to soul, and when we study the fundamental features of his works we find that the mystical life is the source of them all.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Richard Wagner and Mysticism","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-02","location":null,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/92/1907-12-02/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Richard Wagner and Mysticism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA092/English/Singles/19071202p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"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/92/1907-12-02/p016"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/92/1907-12-02/p016","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":"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. 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Wir wissen, daß sich die Welt entwickelt und wie im Laufe der Entwicklung immer Wesen abgestoßen werden. Es ist ein Gesetz, das uns die Geisteswissenschaft lehrt, daß jede Höherentwicklung verbunden ist mit einem Hinunterstoßen. Später findet ein Ausgleich statt. Für jeden Heiligen muß ein Sünder entstehen. Das fordert das notwendige Gleichgewicht. Wahr ist es, so sonderbar es klingt. Das ist, wie wenn eine Flüssigkeit aus zweien zusammengemischt ist. Wenn man die eine rein bekommen will, so muß die andere trüber werden. So ist es mit dem Aufstieg. Mit jedem Aufstieg ist ein Abstieg verknüpft. Das bedingt, daß das Wesen, das aufgestiegen ist, seine Kraft dazu verwendet, um das andere, niedere Wesen zu erlösen. Gäbe es dieses Zusammenwirken von Wesen nicht, dann gäbe es in der Welt keine Entwicklung. Dadurch wird die Entwicklung in Fluß gebracht. Und wenn wir sehen, wie ein Mensch sich für den anderen hinopfert, da werden wir erinnert an ein solches geheimnisvolles Band, das entstanden war dadurch, daß ein Wesen sich hinauf-, das andere sich hinunterentwickelt hat. Nur zart hindeuten kann man auf so etwas. So ist Richard Wagner schon mitten drinnen in jenem geheimnisvollen Band, das von Seele zu Seele sich zieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p022"}],"english":["GA 92/1907-12-02/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":220,"en_words":222,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6744,"original_word_count":6808,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Richard Wagner and Mysticism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA092/English/Singles/19071202p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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