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Yet no one need to believe that the student loses all sense of poetry in life, all power of enthusiasm because the words: *You must be rid of all prejudice*, are written over the portal leading to the second trial of initiation, and because over the portal at the entrance to the first trial he read: *Without normal common sense all thine efforts are in vain.*","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/10/c02-4/p017","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/p017","locus":"GA 10/l03/p017","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/p017","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/p017?edition=HR1960","locus":"GA 10/l06/p017","anchor_mapped":true,"anchor_method":"curated","anchor_confidence":"high"}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 10/l03/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/10/l03/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":169,"en_words":192,"ratio":1.14,"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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Es braucht aber auch niemand zu glauben, daß dem Geheimjünger die Poesie des Lebens, die Begeisterungsfähigkeit verlorengehe, weil über dem Tore, das zur zweiten Probe der Einweihung führt, die Worte stehen: «Alle Vorurteile müssen von dir fallen», und weil er an der Eingangspforte zur ersten Probe bereits lesen muß: «Ohne gesunden Menschenverstand sind alle deine Schritte vergebens. »","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/10/l03/p017"}],"english":["GA 10/c02-4/p017"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":169,"en_words":192,"ratio":1.14,"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. 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