{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If man were not protected by the Guardian of the Threshold his experiences every night would be unendurable and bring about the consequences to which I have referred. If, for instance, he had done someone a wrong, he would feel during sleep as if he were transposed into the other man, experiencing what this other man had felt as a result of the wrong done to him. For the reason given there is no such experience during sleep. But after death, during the period referred to, it comes with very great intensity. We live backwards through our earthly life and through all the compensatory experiences for what we have done or failed to do. 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Wir leben da das Erdenleben zurück und erleben überall die Ausgleichserlebnisse für dasjenige, was wir getan oder unterlassen haben. Wodurch erleben wir diese Ausgleichserlebnisse?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p008"}],"english":["GA 240/1924-06-01/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":152,"en_words":127,"ratio":0.84,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6516,"original_word_count":6430,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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