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But there we will never lose heart either, and we will experience that power is sent to us to overcome difficulties and dangers.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Guardian of the Threshold","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-21","location":null,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/265a/1923-05-21/p053","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. 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