{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104a/1909-05-21/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The three and a half days required for initiation in ancient times were lost days in the initiates' development. Initiates had to leave their bodies during these three and a half days. Therefore, the I could not work on the transformation of its physical body, its etheric body, and its astral body. For this reason, in the future they must leave their physical body to the external world for three and a half days. Hence, we read, “For three days and a half ... gaze at their dead bodies.” (Rev. 11:9) Even the deeds that are sacrifices for humanity must find their cosmic compensation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II-XII","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-05-21","location":null,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1909-05-21/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"James H. 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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":"Teilnehmeraufzeichnungen von vier Vorträgen","evidence_translation":"Participants' records of four lectures","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-05-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1909-05-21/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1909-05-21/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":92,"en_words":104,"ratio":1.13,"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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So lesen wir: «Und... werden ihre Leichen sehen drei und einen halben Tag.» (Apk. 11, 9) Selbst die Taten, die der Menschheit als Opfer gebracht wurden, müssen ihren kosmischen Ausgleich finden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1909-05-21/p019"}],"english":["GA 104a/1909-05-21/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":92,"en_words":104,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.13,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2425,"original_word_count":2146,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. 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