{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1906-01-02/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those of you who heard my recent lecture[^13] at the General Meeting will know that the true original significance of these symbols is connected with the reason for not allowing women to become Freemasons until a short while ago, and the reason for addressing men and women separately on these matters until [just] recently. On the other hand you also know that these symbols are linked—and I particularly stress this—with the two great streams running through the whole world, and rising to the highest spiritual realm; which streams we also encounter as the law of polarity in the forces of male and female.[^14] Within that culture which we now have to consider, the priestly principle is expressed in masonic terminology as the female principle in the spiritual realm—in that spiritual realm which is most closely related to cultural evolution. The rule of the priests is expressed by the female [principle]. On the other hand, the male principle is everything which is opposed to this priestly rule; however, in such a way that this opponent has to be considered as the holiest, the noblest, the greatest and the most spiritual [principle] in the world, no less. There are thus two streams with which we have to deal: a female and a male stream. The Freemasons see Abel as representing the female current, Cain, the male.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. The Royal Art in a New Form","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-02","location":null,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1906-01-02/p034","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. Wood","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"The Temple Legend","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093/English/RSP1985/19060102p01.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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Innerhalb derjenigen Kultur, die für uns in Betracht kommt, drückt die freimaurerische Sprache in dem weiblichen Prinzip auf geistigem Gebiete - auf dem geistigen Gebiete, welches für die Kulturentwickelung zunächst in Betracht kommt - das Priesterprinzip aus. Die Priesterherrschaft wird durch das Weibliche ausgedrückt. Das männliche Prinzip ist dagegen alles dasjenige, was der Widerpart dieser Priesterherrschaft ist, so aber, daß dieser Widerpart nicht minder das Heiligste, das Edelste, das Größte und Geistigste in der Welt zu vertreten hat. Zwei Strömungen sind es also, mit denen wir es zu tun haben: eine weibliche und eine männliche Strömung. Den Repräsentanten der weiblichen sieht der Maurer in Abel, den der männlichen in Kain.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1906-01-02/p034"}],"english":["GA 93/1906-01-02/p034"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":212,"en_words":224,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.23,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":13461,"original_word_count":10911,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"John M. 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