{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If what is written about Rosicrucianism is true, one could only come to the conclusion that it has consisted of nothing but idle boasting, pure fraud or worse. Even those who have attempted to justify it, do so with an air of patronage, though they may have found that Rosicrucianism is able to throw light on certain subjects. But what they have to say about it, for example, that it is involved with alchemy, with producing the philosopher's stone, the stone of the wise, and other alchemical feats, does not inspire much confidence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. 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Allzuviel kommt auch bei der Verteidigung der Rosenkreuzer nicht heraus;insbesondere dann nicht, wenn gesagt wird: Gewiß, das Rosenkreuzertum wird in Zusammenhang gebracht mit Alchemie, mit der Bereitung des Steines der Weisen und allerlei sonstigen alchemistischen Kunststücken. Aber diese Kunststücke bedeuten dem echten, wahren Rosenkreuzer nichts als ein Sinnbild für die innere, moralische Läuterung der Seele, die Heranbildung der besonderen menschlichen Tugenden. Und wenn man sagt, es werde in der Rosenkreuzerei davon gesprochen, daß man unedle Metalle in Gold verwandeln könne, so sei damit nichts anderes gemeint, als daß man die unedlen Metalle der verschiedenen Menschenuntugenden in das Gold der menschlichen Tugenden verwandeln könne, und daß dieser Verwandlungsprozeß nur eine symbolische Darstellung dessen sei, wie man sich innerlich moralisch entwickeln solle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-03-14/p004"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p004","GA 55/1907-03-14/p005"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"partial","length_check":{"de_words":215,"en_words":150,"ratio":0.7,"partial":true},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p004"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7578,"original_word_count":8755,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19070314p01.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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