{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-11-05/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Persian thinking was governed by the concept of time. Zervan Akarana is one of the most important Divinities of the Persians and this is in fact Time. How did one arrive at the concept of time? Whoever seeks above all the primal unity of the Godhead, as in the case of the ancient Indians, must conceive it as the absolute Good. Evil, the imperfect in the world, was for the ancient Indian nothing but illusion; ‘illusion’ was a very important concept. These ancient people said: Nothing whatever exists in the world that is imperfect and evil. If you believe that something evil exists, you have not looked at the world in a way sufficiently free from illusion. Rust, for instance, which eats into iron, is elsewhere very beneficial: you must only consider where it is. When you look at a criminal through the veil of illusion, he will appear to you as such; if however you turn away from illusion you will realise that there is no such thing as evil.—This teaching is inwardly connected with a turning away from the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXXI","site_heading":"Root Races and Sub-Races: From Atlantis to Fifth Root-Race","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/1905-11-05/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Das persische Denken wird beherrscht vom Gedanken der Zeit. Zervan Akarana ist eine Hauptgottheit bei den Persern, und das ist eigentlich die Zeit. Wie kam man zum Begriff der Zeit? Wer wie der uralte Inder vor allem die ureinheitliche Gottheit sucht, muß sie sich als das absolut Gute vorstellen. Das Böse, das Unvollkommene in der Welt, das war für den alten Inder nichts als Illusion; Illusion war ein sehr wichtiger Begriff. Diese Alten sagten: Es gibt in der Welt überhaupt nichts Unvollkommenes und Böses. Wenn ihr glaubt, daß es etwas Böses gibt, so habt ihr die Welt nicht genug illusionsfrei angesehen. Der Rost zum Beispiel, der das Eisen frißt, ist anderswo ein großes Gutes; ihr müßt nur suchen, wo. Wenn ihr einen Verbrecher durch den Schleier der Illusion betrachtet, wird er euch als solcher erscheinen; seht ihr aber von der Illusion ab, so werdet ihr erkennen, daß es das Böse gar nicht gibt. - Diese Lehre hängt innig zusammen mit einer Weltabgewandtheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-11-05/p009"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-11-05/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":162,"en_words":182,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.18,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4205,"original_word_count":3571,"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/RSP1982/19051105p01.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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