{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 96/1906-10-08/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Something that must rise up against this old form of occult work in every human soul is the idea of freedom, the idea of its value and the dignity of man. People are unfree if influences are brought to bear on them in that way. Freedom, however, and this has been shown before, is not something finished and complete but something human beings struggle to gain in the living process of evolution. Freedom is the goal of humanity and not a birth right. And freedom depends on insight. There is no other way of overcoming the old influences that came from the brotherhoods than to make occult knowledge itself widely known. The basic aim of the theosophical movement is to make people free as they learn the spiritual truths that used to be the preserve of the occult brotherhoods. In the old days, the world knew nothing that went beyond the physical plane, and today it knows hardly any of it. Only when the world comes to know the things that go beyond the physical plane will people be able to have the mysterious influences and forces that play between one human being and another, between one nation and another, truly under their own control. That is the human mission for the future and therefore really also the mission of the theosophical movement.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Ein wahrhaft Inspirierter geht nicht bloß zu den ältesten Lehrern der Menschheit in die Schule, sondern gestaltet die Wahrheiten, die er empfängt, für jede Epoche lebendig um. Was sich bei jedem in der Seele regen muß als Einwand gegen diese alte Form des okkulten Wirkens, ist der Begriff der Freiheit, der Begriff ihres Wertes und der Würde des Menschen. Die Menschen sind ja unfrei, wenn in der geschilderten Weise auf sie gewirkt wird. Die Freiheit ist aber, wie öfters gezeigt worden ist, nicht etwas, was fertig ist, sondern etwas, was der Mensch im lebendigen Entwickelungsgang immer mehr ertingt. Freiheit ist das Ziel der Menschheitsentwickelung und nicht etwas, was der Menschheit in die Wiege gelegt worden ist. Und die Freiheit beruht auf Erkenntnis. Kein anderes Mittel gibt es, wodurch die alten Wirkungen, die von den Bruderschaften ausgegangen sind, überwunden werden können, als die Verbreitung des okkulten Wissens selbst. Das liegt der theosophischen Bewegung zugrunde: den Menschen dadurch frei zu machen, daß er die spirituellen Wahrheiten lernt, welche früher den okkulten Bruderschaften vorbehalten waren. Nichts wußte damals die Welt, und kaum weiß sie heute etwas von dem, was über den physischen Plan hinausgeht. Erst wenn sie die Dinge lernt, die über den physischen Plan hinausgehen, wird sie imstande sein, die geheimnisvollen Wirkungen und Kräfte, die zwischen Mensch und Mensch, zwischen Volk und Volk spielen, wirklich selbst zu beherrschen. Das ist die Aufgabe der Zukunft und damit eigentlich auch die Aufgabe der theosophischen Bewegung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":340,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p015"}],"english":["GA 96/1906-10-08/p015","GA 96/1906-10-08/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":340,"en_words":350,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.15,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6420,"original_word_count":5599,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2001","book_title":"Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA096/English/CMP2001/19061008p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 96/1906-10-08/p015"],"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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