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Occult zoology is very complicated and the level of development of group souls varies greatly.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Questions And Answers I","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-04-21","location":null,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/110/1909-04-21/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual Hierarchies Q & A","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA110/English/SOL2024/19090421p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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