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Through words, we get to know the soul life of another person, their thoughts and feelings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Guardian of the Threshold","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-21","location":null,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/265a/1923-05-21/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA265a/English/SOL2025/19230521fm.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/265a/1923-05-21/p011"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/265a/1923-05-21/p011","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Nach Erinnerungsaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmenden","evidence_translation":"From participants' records written from memory","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 265a/1923-05-21/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Alles in der äußeren Natur hat einen Namen bekommen. Die Menschen haben allen Dingen, jedem Tier, jeder Pflanze und jedem Mineral den Namen gegeben. Und der Name ist nicht nur eine Bezeichnung, [sondern] hinter dem Namen verbirgt sich etwas Geistiges, das wirksam ist. Sogar Gefühle und Begriffe haben einen Namen bekommen. Durch den Namen, durch das Wort, kann der eine Mensch in intimere Verbindung mit einem anderen kommen. Durch die Worte lernt man das Seelenleben eines anderen Menschen kennen, seine Gedanken und Gefühle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/265a/1923-05-21/p011"}],"english":["GA 265a/1923-05-21/p011"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":83,"en_words":84,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3870,"original_word_count":3778,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA265a/English/SOL2025/19230521fm.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 265a/1923-05-21/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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