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When we try to put him to the test in this matter, we can come to no conclusive judgment. It is impossible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XI","site_heading":"Destiny's Signatures: Preparing Karmic Investigation","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":"1924-03-22","location":null,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/235/1924-03-22/p036","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by M. Cotterell, C. Davy and D.S. 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