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It is true that he learns many uncommon things of which others can have no inkling, but this acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of the higher worlds, of greater and truer self-confidence, a higher degree of courage, and a magnanimity and perseverance such as cannot, as a rule, be acquired in the lower world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/10/c02-4/p007","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["HR1960","MAC1909","RSPC1947"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/10/l03/p007","locus":"GA 10/l03/p007","anchor_mapped":true,"anchor_method":"curated","anchor_confidence":"high"},{"lang":"en","edition":"RSPC1947","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/10/c02-4/p007","paragraph_aligned":true},{"lang":"en","edition":"HR1960","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/10/l06/p007?edition=HR1960","locus":"GA 10/l06/p007","anchor_mapped":true,"anchor_method":"curated","anchor_confidence":"high"}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 10/l03/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/10/l03/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":190,"en_words":181,"ratio":0.95,"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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Denn das ist festzuhalten: es handelt sich bei einer wahren «Feuerprobe» nicht darum, daß die Neugierde des Kandidaten befriedigt werde. Gewiß, er lernt außergewöhnliche Tatsachen kennen, von denen andere Menschen keine Ahnung haben. Aber dieses Kennenlernen ist nicht das Ziel, sondern nur das Mittel zum Ziel. Das Ziel aber ist, daß sich der Kandidat durch die Erkenntnis der höheren Welten größeres und wahreres Selbstvertrauen, höheren Mut und eine ganz andere Seelengröße und Ausdauer erwerbe, als sie in der Regel innerhalb der niederen Welt erlangt werden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/10/l03/p007"}],"english":["GA 10/c02-4/p007"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":190,"en_words":181,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":null,"band":"no_original","note":null,"word_count":3850,"original_word_count":null,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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