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Many people worry that esoteric science will distract them from immediate life. But the opposite is true. It makes people capable and places them in life. They only need to have the ability and strength to enter the realm of esoteric science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-10","location":null,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-10-10/p029","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Knowledge of Soul and Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/eLib2015/19071010p01.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/56/1907-10-10/p029"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-10-10/p029","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Um was es sich handelt — was viele, die heute zur Geheimwissenschaft kommen, auch wenn sie es nicht klar wissen, wenigstens dunkel ahnen -, das ist etwas, was tief in der sinnlichen Wissenschaft unserer Zeit schlummert, was aber in ihr niemals herauskommen kann und worüber wir im Vortrag über die Naturwissenschaft sprechen können. Es handelt sich nicht um das Erkennen, sondern um das Leben, um die Fortführung und die Steigerung des Lebens. Für viele ist es ja eine Sorge, daß die Geheimwissenschaft sie abwende vom unmittelbaren Leben. Aber gerade das Gegenteil ist richtig. Sie macht die Menschen tüchtig und stellt sie in das Leben hinein. Nur müssen sie die Fähigkeit und Stärke haben, sich in das geheimwissenschaftliche Gebiet hineinzubegeben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/56/1907-10-10/p029"}],"english":["GA 56/1907-10-10/p029"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":192,"en_words":185,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7733,"original_word_count":7554,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Knowledge of Soul and Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/eLib2015/19071010p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 56/1907-10-10/p029"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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