{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-11-05/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Achilles is invulnerable in his whole body with the exception of the heel, Siegfried with the exception of the spot between the shoulders. To be invulnerable in such a way signifies to have been initiated. In Achilles you have the initiate of the Fourth Sub-Race which lies on the ascending curve of man's cultural development: therefore all the upper parts of Achilles are invulnerable; only the heel the lower nature is vulnerable, just as Hephaistos is lame. The German Siegfried was also an initiate of the Fourth Sub-Race, but vulnerable between the shoulder blades. This is his vulnerable spot, first made invulnerable by the One who bore the cross. With Siegfried the Gods reach their downfall, the Northern Gods approach their end (Twilight of the Gods). This gives the Northern saga its tragic note, for it not only points to the past, but to the Twilight of the Gods, to the time which is to come. The Druids gave to man the teaching of the declining Northern Gods. Thus in what was still symbolic form, the battle of St. Boniface[^4] with the Oak represents the battle of the Druids with the old Priesthood.","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 translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"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/93a/1905-11-05/p014"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-11-05/p014","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":"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/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Achill ist unverwundbar am ganzen Leibe, bis auf die Ferse, Siegfried bis auf die Stelle zwischen den Schultern. Unverwundbarsein in solcher Weise bedeutet Eingeweihtsein. In Achill haben Sie den Eingeweihten der vierten Unterrasse, welche im aufsteigenden Bogen der menschlichen Kulturentwickelung liegt; daher sind alle höchsten Teile des Achill unverwundbar, nur die Ferse, die niedere Natur ist verwundbar, ähnlich wie Hephaistos lahm ist. Der deutsche Siegfried war auch ein Held der vierten Unterrasse, aber verwundbar zwischen den Schulterblättern. Hier ist seine verwundbare Stelle, wo erst derjenige, der das Kreuz trägt, sich unverwundbar macht. In Siegfried geht da das Göttliche zugrunde, die nordischen Götter gingen dem Untergange entgegen (Götterdämmerung). Das gibt der nordischen Sage den tragischen Zug, daß sie nicht nur auf die Vergangenheit hinweist, sondern auf die Götterdämmerung, auf die Zeit, die kommen soll. Die Druiden gaben den Menschen die Lehre von den untergehenden nordischen Göttern. Daher wird noch symbolisch im Kampf des Bonifatius gegen die Eiche der Kampf gegen die alte Priesterschaft, die Druiden, dargestellt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-11-05/p014"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-11-05/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":165,"en_words":193,"ratio":1.17,"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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