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So all the statements made in these lectures concerning the course of this or that event are by no means to be taken as merely deriving from the Bible, from one of the four Gospels, but rather as the conclusions arrived at by spiritual research independent of the Gospels. But no opportunity will be missed to show that everything the spiritual scientist can fathom and observe is to be found in the Gospels, particularly in the Gospel of St. John.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Sondern was geschehen ist im Laufe der Menschheitsentwickelung, das wird von der Geisteswissenschaft ganz unabhängig von allen Dokumenten erforscht; und dann erst, wenn der Geistesforscher mit den Mitteln, die unabhängig von einer jeden Urkunde sind, über die betreffenden Dinge geforscht hat und sie zu charakterisieren weiß, wird an die betreffende Urkunde herangegangen und nachgesehen, ob sich auch in den Urkunden findet, was man zunächst ganz unabhängig von einer jeden Überlieferung erforscht hat. Also alles, was über den Verlauf irgendwelcher Ereignisse in diesen Vorträgen gesagt wird, das ist nicht etwa bloß in dem Sinne gesagt, daß es aus der Bibel, aus den vier Evangelien geschöpft ist, sondern es sind die Ergebnisse der von allen Evangelien unabhängigen Geistesforschung. Aber bei jeder Gelegenheit soll darauf hingewiesen werden, daß alles, was der Geistesforscher erkunden und beobachten kann, in den Evangelien und namentlich im Johannes-Evangelium wiedergegeben wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-25/p003"}],"english":["GA 112/1909-06-25/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":204,"en_words":211,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6326,"original_word_count":6406,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Samuel and Loni Lockwood","identified_edition":"AP1948","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090625p02.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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