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We must associate with the acquisition of knowledge the realisation that this knowledge must be an act of divine worship and that it is a transgression against the divine purpose of evolution to profane knowledge, to divert it from its divine mission.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Human Knowledge and Its Significance for Man and the Cosmos","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-08-07","location":null,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/170/1916-08-07/p018","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Riddle of Humanity","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA170/English/Singles/19160807p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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