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With the help of an example I should like to give you an idea of certain difficulties that may arise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Initiates and Clairvoyants","site_heading":"Luke's Gospel: Imaginative Clairvoyance and the Akashic Chronicle","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1909-09-15","location":null,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/114/1909-09-15/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-09-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 114/1909-09-15/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/114/1909-09-15/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":146,"en_words":144,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6498,"original_word_count":6947,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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