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Enclosed within him he has a fiery centre of destruction, and in truth the forces of decline can be transformed into forces of ascent only if he becomes conscious of this fact.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Evil and the Power of Thought","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-09-23","location":null,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/207/1921-09-23/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Cosmosophy Vol.  I","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA207/English/Singles/19210923p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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