{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have often said that the language of a document such as the Bible should not be taken lightly. If trees are spoken of in the Bible, if the Elohim speak of trees, you can be sure it's significant. Something essential is meant by this expression. It has been said of Homer that he declared that each thing has two names, one in the language of the gods and one in the language of ordinary mortals. With this in mind, we might imagine that the gods' referring to trees may have something to do with this divine language. Considering the subject more deeply, we may wonder what the Elohim are actually talking about when they speak of the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. What do they mean?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-12","location":null,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p031","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Catherine E. Creeger","identified_edition":"AP1991","book_title":"Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA253/English/AP1991/19150912p01.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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Wenn man nun etwas weiter eindringt in die Sache, so wird man sich fragen: Ja, von was reden eigentlich die Elohim, wenn sie von dem Baum der Erkenntnis und von dem Baum des Lebens sprechen? Von was reden sie eigentlich? Was meinen sie damit?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":143,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p028"}],"english":["GA 253/1915-09-12/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":143,"en_words":130,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5107,"original_word_count":4883,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Catherine E. 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