{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 44/01_02/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"MARY:  \nIt was, John, the hardest journey of my life,  \nWhich now led me to you.  \nI needed the help of all good beings,  \nTo whom Benedictus' wisdom had ever connected me,  \nTo overcome all resistance,  \nThat stood in my way.  \nWhat I ever felt as weakness,  \nWhat I could desire in the course of my life,  \nIt broke away from my being  \nAnd became its own entity.  \nSo I stood before thousands of souls,  \nWhom I had to fight.  \nThey did not fight as enemies,  \nThey lured as seducers;  \nThey promised bliss,  \nAnd when I turned away from them,  \nThey darkened the light of my thoughts,  \nSo that my memory would fade  \nOf everything that had become mine from the sources of wisdom,  \nTo extricate myself  \nHad become mine, to extricate myself  \nFrom the enemies' own essence.  \nThey could not wrest from me  \nMy guide's noble gifts.  \nSo I always found myself  \nIn the best part of my being  \nAnd was able to find your soul.  \nIn that part of my being  \nI had to grasp it,  \nWhich can indeed be lost,  \nBut in loss  \nIs consecrated to eternal death.  \nI had to save it for you.  \nYou could have ignited that spark,  \nWhich sleeps in every human being,  \nIn the terrible realm of chaos,  \nBut you would have  \nYou would have withdrawn it forever from the world,  \nFor which you received it.  \nAs soon as you find yourself here again,  \nIt is impossible for you to think  \nThat you detach yourself from your origin  \nAnd consecrate yourself to the construction of other worlds.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Preliminary drafts: Scenes not included in the drama","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":265,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":null,"book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA044/English/Dweller_01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"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/44/01_02/p030"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p030","paragraph_aligned":true}],"unit_kind":{"kind":"second_piece_same_name","base_unit":"GA 44/01","note":"Another piece with the same name as 01 in this volume; the suffix only separates the two."},"authorship":{"kind":"dramatis_persona","is_steiner":true,"speaker":"MARY","author":"Rudolf Steiner","note":"A line from the drafts and fragments of Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas. The text is his, the words are the character's: never quote it as a statement in his own voice."},"attribution_warning":"A line from the drafts and fragments of Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas. The text is his, the words are the character's: never quote it as a statement in his own voice.","witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2175,"original_word_count":1940,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":null,"book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA044/English/Dweller_01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 44/01_02/p030"],"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. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}