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He belongs to the general cosmic existence, and without it he cannot at all be looked upon, not at all be comprehended as a human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Karma Question and the Hierarchies","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-02-17","location":null,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/235/1924-02-17/p004","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Henry B. Monges","identified_edition":"AP1943","book_title":"Karma","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA235/English/AP1943/19240217p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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