{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-05-31/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There were ages in the history of man when wine was not known. In the days of the Vedas it was practically unknown. In the ages when there was no drinking of alcohol, the idea of previous existences and of many lives was universally held; nobody doubted its truth. As soon as man began to drink wine, however, the knowledge of re-incarnation rapidly faded away, ultimately to disappear entirely from the consciousness of man. It existed only among the Initiates who took no alcohol. Alcohol has a peculiarly potent effect on the human organism, especially on the etheric body which is the seat of memory. Alcohol obscures the intimate depths of memory. ‘Wine induces forgetfulness’—so the saying goes. The forgetfulness is not only superficial or momentary, but deep and permanent and there is a deadening of the power of memory in the etheric body. That is why, little by little, men lost their instinctive knowledge of reincarnation when they began to drink wine.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. Occultism and the Gospel of St. John","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-05-31","location":null,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-05-31/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"René Queirdo","identified_edition":"SGP1978","book_title":"An Esoteric Cosmology","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/SGP1978/19060531p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"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/94/1906-05-31/p015"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-05-31/p015","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":"Zusammenfassungen und Notizen von Vorträgen u. Vortragsreihen","evidence_translation":"Summaries and notes of lectures and lecture cycles","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-05-31","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 94/1906-05-31/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-05-31/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":167,"en_words":163,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Der Alkohol verschleiert das Gedächtnis, verdunkelt es in seinen inneren Tiefen. Der Wein schafft Vergessenheit, sagt man. Dabei handelt es sich nicht um ein oberflächliches, momentanes Vergessen, sondern um ein tiefes und dauerndes Vergessen, um eine Verfinsterung der Gedächtniskraft im Ätherleib. Daher verloren die Menschen, als sie sich anschickten Wein zu trinken, nach und nach ihr ursprüngliches Gefühl für die Wiederverkörperung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-05-31/p014"}],"english":["GA 94/1906-05-31/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":167,"en_words":163,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":1575,"original_word_count":1529,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"René Queirdo","identified_edition":"SGP1978","book_title":"An Esoteric Cosmology","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/SGP1978/19060531p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 94/1906-05-31/p014"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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