{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 14/ga014-2_scene05/p012","lang":"en","edition":"APC1925","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"*Felix:*  \nThe spirit-voice which speaks within my heart  \nBade me of yore be silent; I obeyed.  \nNow that it bids me speak I show myself  \nEqually faithful unto its command.  \nOur human nature undergoes a change  \nAs earth's existence gradually evolves.  \nNow are we very near an epoch's close;  \nAnd spirit-knowledge therefore must in part  \nBe now revealed unto every man  \nWho chooseth to receive it to himself.  \nI know how little what I have to tell  \nIs in agreement with man's current thought;  \nThe spirit-life, they say, must be made known,  \nIn strict and logical thought sequences,  \nAnd men deny all logic to my words.  \nTrue science on a firm foundation based,  \nCannot, they say, regard me otherwise  \nThan as a visionary soul who seeks  \nA solitary road to wisdom's seat,  \nAnd knows no more of science than of art.  \nYet not a few declare it worth their while  \nThe tangle of my language to explore,  \nBecause therein from time to time is found  \nSomething of worth, to reason not opposed.  \nI am a man into whose heart must flow,  \nUntouched by art, each vision he may see.  \nNought know I of a knowledge lacking words.  \nWhen I retreat within mine inmost heart  \nAnd also when I list to nature's voice,  \nThen such a knowledge wakes to life in me  \nAs hath no need to seek for any words;  \nSpeech is to it as intimately linked  \nAs is his body's sheath to man on earth;  \nAnd knowledge such as this, which in this wise  \nReveals itself to us from spirit-worlds,  \nCan be of service even unto those  \nWho understand it not. And so it is  \nThat every man is free to come to me  \nWho will attend to what I have to say.  \nMany are led by curiosity  \nAnd other trivial reasons to my door.  \nI know that this is so, but also know  \nThat though the souls of just such men as these  \nAre not this moment living for the light,  \nYet in them have been planted seeds of good  \nWhich will not fail to ripen in due time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Soul's Probation: Scene 5","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":351,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/14/ga014-2_scene05/p012","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["APC1925"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"APC1925","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/14/ga014-2_scene05/p012"}],"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.2,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3164,"original_word_count":2633,"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":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"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."}}