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Again and again this element wants to enter into human beings and make them go by the intellect alone, preventing them from developing the higher faculties of Imagination and Inspiration, seeking to keep humanity at their level, so as to ease their own pain.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Luciferic and Ahrimanic Forces in Human Evolution","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1921-10-23","location":null,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/208/1921-10-23/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. 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Es ist etwas, was immer wieder und wieder in den Menschen herein will und den Menschen halten möchte beim bloßen Verstande, ihn nicht hinaufkommen lassen möchte bis zur Imagination, Inspiration, weil es das Menschenwesen zur Linderung seiner Qual bei sich behalten möchte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/208/1921-10-23/p026"}],"english":["GA 208/1921-10-23/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":120,"en_words":146,"ratio":1.22,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5319,"original_word_count":5468,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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