{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 12/l02/p011","lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now the basis of danger threatening the human being in this world lies in the fact that he perceives the manifestations of “spiritual beings”, but not the beings themselves. This is the case as long as he remains only in the imaginative world and rises no higher. Only Inspiration and intuition lead him gradually to the beings themselves.—If, however, the occult teacher should awaken these faculties prematurely, without having thoroughly introduced the pupil to the realm of Imagination, the higher world would have for him only a shadowy and phantasmal existence. The whole glorious fullness of the pictures in which it must reveal itself when one really enters into it, would be lost. Herein lies the reason why the occult student needs a “guide.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Imagination","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p011","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1967"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p011"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p011","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":138,"en_words":124,"ratio":0.9,"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."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nun liegt der Grund zu einer Gefahr, welche dem Menschen von dieser Welt droht, darin, daß er die Äußerungen der «geistigen Wesen» wahrnimmt, aber nicht diese Wesen selbst. Es ist das nämlich so lange der Fall, als er nur in der imaginativen Welt bleibt und zu keiner höheren aufsteigt. Erst die Inspiration und die Intuition führen ihn allmählich zu diesen Wesen selbst hin. Wollte aber der Geheimlehrer diese letzteren vorschnell erwecken, ohne den Schüler gründlich in das imaginative Gebiet einzuführen, dann würde die höhere Welt nur ein schatten- und schemenhaftes Dasein erhalten. Die ganze herrliche Fülle der Bilder ginge verloren, in denen sie sich offenbaren muß, wenn man wirklich in sie eintreten soll. — In dieser Tatsache liegt der Grund, warum der Geheimschüler einen «Führer» oder einen «Guru» braucht, wie man in der Geheimwissenschaft eben diesen Führer nennt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p011"}],"english":["GA 12/l02/p011"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":138,"en_words":124,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3721,"original_word_count":3692,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 12/l02/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}