{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 95/1906-08-26/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"After a man has taken with him into Devachan his higher astral body, and the causal body made up of the fruits of his former lives, he now has to gather round him new “astral substance” rather as scattered iron filings are brought into order by the pull of a magnet. He collects this astral substance in accordance with the forces within him: the substance collected after a good previous life is different from the substance collected after a bad one. The bell-shaped forms are made up of the causal body, the forces of the earlier astral body and the new astral body. The germinal human being ought not to encounter the old astral body; his task is to build up a new astral body out of undifferentiated astral substance, so that the whole process depends on the man himself. The form and colour of the new astral body are determined by the forces of his previous life: this is a fact to be kept thoroughly well in mind. The reason why the germinal human beings dart about with such enormous speed is that they are seaching for parents with suitable characters and family circumstances. Their speed helps them to find the right parents—they can be here at one moment and in America the next.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-08-26","location":null,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-08-26/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E.H. 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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":"Vierzehn Vorträge und zwei Fragenbeantwortungen (Hörernotizen)","evidence_translation":"Fourteen lectures and two question-answerings (listeners' notes)","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-08-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-26/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-26/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":291,"en_words":312,"ratio":1.07,"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 Mensch hatte den höheren Astralleib und die Früchte der verschiedenen Leben als Kausalleib mit sich ins Devachan genommen, und nun sammelt er eine neue «Astralmaterie» um sich herum. Es ist das gleichsam, wie wenn herumgestreute Eisenspäne sich ordnen nach den Kräften eines Magnets. Je nach den innewohnenden Kräften sammelt der Mensch die Astralmaterie um sich herum; bei einem guten Vorleben sammelt er anderes Material als bei einem schlechten. Das glockenförmige Gebilde nun ist der frühere Kausalleib, die Kräfte des früheren Astralleibes und der neue Astralleib. Der Keim soll nun nicht mehr den alten Astralleib finden, sondern er soll sich einen neuen Astralleib bilden aus der undifferenzierten Astralmaterie, so daß dieser Vorgang von dem Menschen selbst abhängig ist: Je nach den Kräften des vergangenen Lebens ist die Form und Farbe des neuen Astralleibes. Das ist eine Tatsache, die man wohl beachten muß. Warum schießen diese Menschenkeime mit solch rasender Schnelligkeit dahin? Weil das Elternpaar gesucht werden muß, das nach Charakter und Familienverhältnissen zu dem Menschenkeime paßt. Die Schnelligkeit ermöglicht es, daß das Elternpaar gefunden wird. Der Menschenkeim kann in diesem Moment hier, im nächsten schon in Amerika sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-26/p015"}],"english":["GA 95/1906-08-26/p015","GA 95/1906-08-26/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":291,"en_words":312,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2187,"original_word_count":2135,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. 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