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The Law of Karma","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-22","location":null,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-22/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070622p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Zuerst hat die Theologie gesagt: Gott hat die Welt aus dem Nichts geschaffen -, weil diese Theologie ja nichts mehr von den dem Erdendasein vorangehenden kosmischen Entwickelungsperioden wußte, und darüber sind ganze Bibliotheken geschrieben worden. Aber alle diese Theologen haben gekämpft wie Don Quijote gegen Windmühlen. Man muß jedoch immer wissen, wogegen man kämpfen will; das heißt, man muß immer den ursprünglichen Sinn der alten Urkunden klarlegen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":78,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-22/p012"}],"english":["GA 100/1907-06-22/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":78,"en_words":89,"ratio":1.14,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4787,"original_word_count":4729,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070622p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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