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You thus read the astral in the blood, just as you read the world ‘spirit’ in these letters. Reading the letters that exist here in the physical world leads to perception of the astral sphere.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Spiritual Insight Offering Greatest Liberation II: The Mission of the Spiritual Science Movement","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-10-08","location":null,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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"},"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/96/1906-10-08/p026"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p026","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Um ein Beispiel für dieses Lesen zu zeigen, sei das Folgende angeführt. Der Chemiker nimmt Blut, analysiert es und sagt, es bestehe aus diesen und jenen Bestandteilen. Dann ist er fertig, und er weiß, was Blut ist. Das Lesen im geisteswissenschaftlich-okkulten Sinne zeigt Ihnen aber, daß das Blut in der Form, wie wir es haben, nicht hätte zustande kommen können, wenn nicht dahinter die Erscheinungen stünden, welche wir die astralen nennen. Der Geist der Welt wirkt durch die astralen Erscheinungen auf den Stoff. Niemals könnte es in der physischen Welt Blut geben, wenn nicht hinter der physischen Welt die astralische stünde. Alles mögliche könnte da sein, das Blut aber ist nur dadurch möglich, daß die astrale Welt dahinter vorhanden ist. So lesen Sie im Blute das Astrale, wie Sie in diesen Zeichen das Wort «Geist» lesen. Das Lesen der Schriftzeichen, die hier im Physischen gegeben sind, führt zum Schauen im Astralen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p021"}],"english":["GA 96/1906-10-08/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":158,"en_words":180,"ratio":1.14,"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/p021"],"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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