{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 154/1914-04-17/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Our ancestors required a different event that was connected to the time when the sun reaches its zenith. When everything in nature was budding and blossoming, they experienced an ecstasy that reaffirmed for them the existence of the spiritual world. What they experienced then at St. John's Tide we now have to experience in the spring, at Easter. We have to be able to celebrate the awakening of the soul, the resurrection of the soul, when spiritual science speaks to us not merely as a theory, but as living knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path","date":"1914-04-17","location":null,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/154/1914-04-17/p026","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"identified_edition":"AP1990","translator":"Christian von Arnim and edited by Joachim Reuter","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA154/English/AP1990/PreDea_index.html"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/154/1914-04-17/p026","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-04-17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 154/1914-04-17/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/154/1914-04-17/p015"},{"locus":"GA 154/1914-04-17/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/154/1914-04-17/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":238,"en_words":182,"ratio":0.76,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative and this passage's lecture alignment is imperfect. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."}}