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Thus there is a circle of physical bodies, and within an etheric circular surface, which forms a unity because the egos are caught up in it, and the single ego is enclosed. Through this image we come to a pictorial idea of the group souls.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Four Human Soul Groups","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-10-29","location":null,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1908-10-29/p005","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA107/English/Singles/19081029p01.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. 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