{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-23/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The shepherds of the field were equipped with something. They were equipped with depth of heart, with deep feeling whereby, through clairvoyance, they came to the vision of the Christmas Mystery. Our contemporaries are equipped with the telescope and microscope. But no telescope or microscope will lead to the solution of man's deepest riddle as did the hearts of the poor shepherds. No foresight through calculation of sun and moon eclipses and so on will lead man to comprehend the necessary course of the world as did the star-wisdom of the Magi of the East. How all human differences flow together into a single human feeling when we realize that what the shepherds of the field, without wisdom, experienced through the piety of their hearts is the same as what stimulated the Magi of the East as the highest wisdom! In a wonderful way both facts are placed side by side in the Christian tradition.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. A Christmas Lecture","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-23","location":null,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-23/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"MP1983","book_title":"The Search for the New Isis, Divine Sophia","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/MP1983/19201223p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"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/202/1920-12-23/p020"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-23/p020","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. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-12-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-23/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-23/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":147,"en_words":155,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-23/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Die Hirten auf dem Felde waren bewaffnet mit vertieftem Herzensgefühl, wodurch sie in ihrer Hellsichtigkeit zur Anschauung des Weihnachtsmysteriums kamen. Unsere Zeitgenossen sind bewaffnet mit Teleskop und Mikroskop. Kein Teleskop, kein Mikroskop führt hin zum Begreifen desjenigen, was des Menschen tiefstes Rätsel löst, wie es das Herz der Hirten auf dem Felde getan hat. Keine Voraussicht, die sich mit den Rechnungsansätzen für Sonnen- und Mondenfinsternisse machen läßt, führt hin, den für die Menschen notwendigen Gang der Welt zu begreifen, wie das gekonnt hat die Weisheit, die Sternenweisheit der Magier aus dem Morgenlande. Wie fließt alles in der Menschheit Differenzierte zusammen in das einheitliche Menschenempfinden, wenn wir uns sagen: Was die Hirten auf dem Felde ohne alle Weisheit durch die Frömmigkeit ihres Herzens erlebten, es ist dasselbe, was die höchste Weisheit der Magier aus dem Morgenlande bewegte! -— Wunderbar werden die beiden Tatsachen in der christlichen Tradition nebeneinandergestellt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-23/p019"}],"english":["GA 202/1920-12-23/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":147,"en_words":155,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5418,"original_word_count":5132,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"MP1983","book_title":"The Search for the New Isis, Divine Sophia","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/MP1983/19201223p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing.","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-23/p019"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":1.05,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. A name the German carries is absent here (or a name appears here that the German does not carry). Two things cause this and they need telling apart: the translation really drops or reassigns what the original distinguishes, OR the paragraph alignment paired the wrong passages. `bead_confidence` does NOT settle which: this corpus's embedding aligner pairs topically-related paragraphs at full confidence, and a sampled high-confidence mismatch proved to be a wrong pairing. Read the German passages listed and confirm they are counterparts BEFORE drawing any conclusion about the translation."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}