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You see I am not using empty words when I tell you that what matters is to transform purely theoretical things into the reality whenever we wish to speak of the truths that exist beyond the threshold.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Spirit and Matter: Reversing Materialist Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber die erste Etappe wird damit begonnen, daß hier in dem physischen Leben die Karikaturen des geistigen Lebens auftreten, daß die Menschen zunächst hier Parteifahnen aufrichten und Parteigötzen folgen, während sie geistigen Wesenheiten folgen sollten. Da ist es Wahrheit, wenn es in der übersinnlichen Welt geschieht; Lüge und Illusion ist es, wenn es hier in der physischen Welt geschieht. Sie sehen, es ist keine Phrase, wenn davon gesprochen wird, daß es darauf ankommt, das bloß theoretische Wesen in Wirklichkeit zu verwandeln, sobald man von den Wahrheiten jenseits der Schwelle sprechen will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/197/1920-07-30/p016"}],"english":["GA 197/1920-07-30/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":192,"en_words":176,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6265,"original_word_count":6008,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1987","book_title":"Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA197/English/RSP1987/19200730p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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