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It would of course be much easier to let somebody else stamp the 12,000 Membership Cards, but this will not be done. This is a symbolic indication that in the future the human element prevailing in the Society is all-important.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"The Christmas Foundation and Michael's Mysteries Unveiled","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":"1924-08-12","location":null,"word_count":188,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-08-12/p017","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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