{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 178/1917-11-18/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A good sheltered place for spiritual life, an exceptionally good sheltered spot, protected against all possible illusions, was Ireland, the Irish Island during the first Christian centuries. It was truly protected from all possible illusions, more than any other region on earth. This is also the reason that so many disseminators of Christianity in the early Christian centuries originated in Ireland. These disseminators of Christianity, however, had to work with a naive humanity, because European humanity, among whom they were active, was in those days naive. They had to take this humanity in its naiveté into consideration, but as far as they themselves were concerned, they had to know and understand the great impulses of humanity. In the fourth and fifth centuries particularly, Irish initiates were active in Central Europe. They began there, and their activity consisted in preparing what was to take place in the future. To a certain extent they were under the influence of the initiate-knowledge that revealed that in the fifteenth century (1413, as you know) the fifth post-Atlantean era was to begin. They were under this influence. They also knew that they had to prepare for a completely new age, that a naive humanity must be protected for this new period. What was it that was done at that time to protect this naive humanity, to build a fence around it, as it were, to keep certain harmful influences from entering? What was done?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 1","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-11-18","location":null,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/178/1917-11-18/p035","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gilbert Church and Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReapChrist/19171118p01.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/178/1917-11-18/p035"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/178/1917-11-18/p035","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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Jahrhundert wirkten namentlich irische Eingeweihte in Mitteleuropa; da fingen sie an und sie wirkten so, daß sie das vorbereiteten, was in der Zukunft geschehen mußte. Sie standen in einer gewissen Weise unter dem Einfluß jenes Binweihungswissens, daß im 15. Jahrhundert — Sie wissen: 1413 — die fünfte nachatlantische Zeit kommen werde. Unter diesem Einfluß standen sie. Sie wußten also, vorzubereiten haben sie eine ganz neue Zeit, eine naive Menschheit muß für diese neue Zeit behütet werden. Was tat man dazumal, um diese naive Menschheit Europas so zu behüten, daß sie gewissermaßen umzäunt war und gewisse schädliche Einflüsse nicht hereinkommen konnten, was tat man?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-18/p035"}],"english":["GA 178/1917-11-18/p035"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":216,"en_words":239,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7784,"original_word_count":7738,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Gilbert Church and Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReapChrist/19171118p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 178/1917-11-18/p035"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":1.11,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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