{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 97/1906-02-12/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Words sound in air-filled space, otherwise we would not hear them. The figures of the words we speak are in that space. If the air could be suddenly made to go rigid as I speak the waves that buzz around in the air would fall down as rigid solid bodies. A mystery teacher would tell his pupil: ‘Just as a human being speaks, wresting his inner life away and passing it into the air, so the cosmic soul also spoke, but into much more subtle matter, into Akasha matter, and this would then become solid.’ Everything around us is condensed word of god. And so, the mystery teacher said, the world all around us is frozen word of God, a frozen logos. ‘In the beginning was the word and the word was with God.’ It was still within itself, it was itself a god. Then it filled space and froze. This logos is now present in everything. Everywhere around us we have the crystals of the logos. But as life evolved, the logos arose from its state of slumber, as it were. In man it became the light of insight. When we gain insight, God, who has originally descended into the world, comes to us out of this world. One must enter wholly into this, penetrating so deeply into the world that one realizes: The logos lives in the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Gospel of John as an Initiation Document I","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-02-12","location":null,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/97/1906-02-12/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2000","book_title":"The Christian Mystery","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA097/English/CMP2000/19060212p02.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/97/1906-02-12/p009"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/97/1906-02-12/p009","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 einunddreißig Einzelvorträgen mit sechs Fragenbeantwortungen","evidence_translation":"Notes of thirty-one single lectures with six question-answerings","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 97/1906-02-12/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Die Worte durchtönen den Luftraum, wir würden sonst die Worte nicht hören. Im Luftraum sind die Gestalten der Worte, die wir aussprechen. Wenn die Luft, während ich spreche, plötzlich zum Erstarren gebracht werden könnte, so würden die in der Luft schwirrenden Wellen als feste, starre Körper herunterfallen. Der Mysterienlehrer machte dem Schüler klar: So wie der Mensch spricht und sein Inneres losringt in die Luft, so sprach auch die Weltenseele in eine viel feinere Materie hinein, in die Akasha-Materie, und diese wurde darauf fest. Alles um uns herum ist verdichtetes Gotteswort. So, sagte der Mysterienlehrer, ist die Welt ringsherum ein gefrorenes Gotteswort, ein gefrorener Logos. «Im Anfang war das Wort und das Wort war bei Gott.» Es war noch in seinem Inneren, es war selbst ein Gott. Dann erfüllte es den Raum und erstarrte. Dieser Logos ist jetzt überall enthalten. Überall um uns her haben wir die Kristalle des Logos. Aber indem das Leben entsteht, steht der Logos aus dem Schlummerzustand gleichsam auf. Im Menschen wird er zum Lichte der Erkenntnis. Wenn wir erkennen, tritt uns Gott, der zuerst heruntergestiegen ist in die Welt, aus dieser Welt entgegen. Sich ganz hineinleben muß man, um so tief in die Welt hineinzudringen, daß man gewahr wird: Der Logos lebt in der Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":210,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1906-02-12/p009"}],"english":["GA 97/1906-02-12/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":210,"en_words":230,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.14,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2352,"original_word_count":2056,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2000","book_title":"The Christian Mystery","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA097/English/CMP2000/19060212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 97/1906-02-12/p009"],"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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