{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-31/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And now we have the point of time when fire was withdrawn from spiritual beings for the benefit of man. Human beings drew their warmth from a particular kind of spiritual being—the Agni. Because of this, what was previously there as Fire-Spirit in the world had to withdraw and from then on could only appear from time to time in the form of fire. The Promethean-Saga is based on this fact. The god had lost his previous body and created for himself a new one in the external fire. Here we have an outstanding example of how in a certain way man works destructively on the elemental forces of Nature. Man himself had called forth the element of fire in that he had become an individualised being. This underlies the occult saying that, fundamentally speaking, man works destructively where elemental beings are concerned. This is very far-reaching and makes clear to us how man still today continually creates new conditions, new forces of Nature in his world around him, while he himself progresses in his development. He shapes the structure of the Earth. Fire arose in the Lemurian Age; because of this Lemuria could meet its destruction through fire which man himself had created.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXVIII","site_heading":"Cosmic Evolution of Human Senses and Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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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":"Notizen von einem esoterischen Lehrgang","evidence_translation":"Notes from an esoteric course","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-31/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Und nun haben wir den Zeitpunkt, in welchem das Feuer für den Menschen geistigen Wesen entzogen wurde. Dem Körper eines bestimmten geistigen Wesens haben die Menschen ihre Wärme entzogen - Agni! Dadurch mußte sich das, was früher da war als Feuergeist in der Welt, zurückziehen und konnte dann nur noch zeitweise erscheinen in Gestalt von Feuer. Die Prometheus-Sage beruht auf dieser Tatsache. Der Gott hat seinen früheren Körper verloren und schafft sich in dem äußeren Feuer einen neuen Körper. Da haben Sie ein ganz besonderes Beispiel, wie der Mensch in gewisser Weise zerstörend wirkt auf die Elementarkräfte der Natur. Der Mensch hat das Element Feuer selbst hervorgerufen, indem er selbst ein Sonderwesen geworden ist. Darum ist es ein okkulter Satz, daß der Mensch im Grunde genommen den Elementarwesen gegenüber ein Zerstörer ist. Das geht sehr weit und läßt uns klar erscheinen, daß der Mensch heute noch in seiner Umwelt fortwährend neue Verhältnisse, neue Naturkräfte schafft, indem er sich selbst weiterentwickelt. Er gestaltet die Erde aus. Das Feuer ist entstanden in der lemurischen Zeit, daher konnte Lemurien durch das Feuer untergehen, welches der Mensch selbst geschaffen hatte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-31/p024"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-10-31/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":186,"en_words":204,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3048,"original_word_count":2811,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051031p01.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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