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Then we grow slowly into the spiritual world. Nevertheless, very, very frequently it happens that the world is opened to us as by a kind of shock which breaks in upon our life—by a sudden and unexpected event.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Brunetto Latini","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-01-30","location":null,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/161/1915-01-30/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Brunetto Latini","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA161/English/Singles/19150130p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/161/1915-01-30/p012"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/161/1915-01-30/p012","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Im Grunde genommen erwartet eigentlich ein jeder, der sich auf den Pfad der Geisteswissenschaft begibt, daß über kurz oder lang für ihn die Tore der geistigen Welten sich öffnen werden. Sie werden es auch. Es kann ja allerdings vorkommen und kommt oftmals vor, daß das Hineingehen in . die geistige Welt allmählich erfolgt, daß wir langsam hineinwachsen in die geistige Welt; aber sehr häufig ist es auch so, daß durch eine Art plötzlichen Ereignisses, wie durch eine Art Lebensschock, der über uns hereinbricht, die geistige Welt uns geöffnet wird. Und so erzählt denn Brunetto Latini selber, wie er als Gesandter zum Beherrscher Kastiliens geschickt worden war, wie er wieder zurückkehrte, wie er auf dem Wege erfuhr, daß aus Florenz seine Partei, die Welfische Partei, vertrieben worden war, daß Florenz sich vollständig verändert hatte während seiner Abwesenheit. Das brachte ihn in Verwirrung. Mit solcher Verwirrung der äußeren, für die physische Welt geeigneten Seelenverfassung ist oftmals das verbunden, was den Anfangspunkt bildet für das Hereinkommen in die geistige Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/161/1915-01-30/p013"}],"english":["GA 161/1915-01-30/p012","GA 161/1915-01-30/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":254,"en_words":258,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 161/1915-01-30/p012","GA 161/1915-01-30/p013"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5367,"original_word_count":5385,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Brunetto Latini","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA161/English/Singles/19150130p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 161/1915-01-30/p012","GA 161/1915-01-30/p013"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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