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An outward sign of this is the bloodless sacrifice, the Lord's Supper.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. Theosophy and Christianity","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-01-04","location":null,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/52/1904-01-04/p038","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":"Spiritual Teachings Concerning the Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA052/English/SOL2025/19040104p01.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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