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A regular understanding, too, is now at last possible between the candidate and the initiate in the spheres of higher knowledge. For whatever form the intercourse between an initiate and another person may take in ordinary life, the higher knowledge in its immediate form can only be imparted by the initiate in the above-mentioned sign-language.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/10/c02-4/p010","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/p010","locus":"GA 10/l03/p010","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/p010","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/p010?edition=HR1960","locus":"GA 10/l06/p010","anchor_mapped":true,"anchor_method":"curated","anchor_confidence":"high"}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 10/l03/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/10/l03/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 10/l03/p010"],"length_check":{"de_words":179,"en_words":184,"ratio":1.03,"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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Vorher konnte er nie mit Bestimmtheit wissen, ob die Dinge, die er gesehen hat, auch richtig gesehen waren. Und jetzt erst kann eine geregelte Verständigung zwischen dem Kandidaten und dem Eingeweihten auf den Gebieten des höheren Wissens stattfinden. Denn wie auch das Zusammenleben eines Eingeweihten mit einem anderen Menschen im gewöhnlichen Leben gestaltet sein mag: von dem höheren Wissen in *unmittelbarer Gestalt* kann der Eingeweihte nur in der erwähnten Zeichensprache etwas mitteilen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/10/l03/p010"}],"english":["GA 10/c02-4/p010"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":179,"en_words":184,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 10/l03/p010"]},"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. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 10/l03/p010"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}