{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p045","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And now let us see how this sublime ideal lived on the heart and soul of Richard Wagner.—In the year 1857, on Good Friday, he was standing on the balcony of the summer-house at the Villa Wesendonck and as he looked out over the landscape he saw the budding of the early spring flowers. The sight of the young plants revealed to him the mystery of the Holy Grail, the mystery of the coming-to-birth of all that is implicit in the image of the Holy Grail. All this he felt in connection with Good Friday and in the mood that fell upon him the first idea of Parsifal was born. Many things happened in the intervening period but the feeling remained in him and out of it he created the figure of Parsifal—the figure in whom knowledge is sublimated to feeling, the figure who having suffered for others, becomes “a knower through compassion.” And the Amfortas-mystery portrays how human nature in the course of evolution has been wounded by the lance of defiled love.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Richard Wagner and Mysticism","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-02","location":null,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/92/1907-12-02/p045","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/p045"},{"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/p045","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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Es war im Jahr 1857, da stand er am Karfreitag im Gartenhaus der Villa der Frau Wesendonck auf dem Balkon und sah hinaus, wie die ersten Pflanzen hervorkamen. Er hat diesen denkwürdigen Moment aufgezeichnet. Er empfand in dem Hervorsprießen der jungen Pflanzen das ganze Geheimnis des heiligen Gral, des Geborenwerdens alles dessen, was verbunden ist mit der Vorstellung vom heiligen Gral. Er empfand das im Zusammenhang mit dem Karfreitag. Wunderbare Stimmung überkam ihn. Da schoß der erste Gedanke seines «Parsifal» in ihm auf. Es ist nun viel hineingefallen in die Zeit, die darauf folgte. Aber die Empfindung ist geblieben. Aus ihr heraus formte er die Gestalt seines Parsifal, jene Gestalt, in welcher das Gefühl zum Wissen erhoben wird, wo man durch das Mitfühlen wissend, «durch Mitleid wissend» wird. Und die ganze Entwicklung, wie die menschliche Natur verwundet wird durch die unreine Lanze - das tritt uns im Amfortas-Geheimnis entgegen. Wir sehen, wie da aufleuchtet das mystische Geheimnis vom heiligen Gral.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p043"}],"english":["GA 92/1907-12-02/p045"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":176,"en_words":174,"ratio":0.99,"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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