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Goethe says in this poem “The Secrets,” in which he speaks of a special initiation of the Rosicrucians and thus alludes to the principle of initiation in profound words:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Initiation or Consecration","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-11-28","location":null,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-11-28/p005","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/eLib2015/19071128p01.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/56/1907-11-28/p005"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-11-28/p005","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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Es sei — wir werden darauf im Verlaufe der heutigen Betrachtungen zurückkommen — an die Spitze dieses heutigen Vortrages jenes Wort gestellt, mit dem Goethe in dem tiefgedachten Fragment «Die Geheimnisse» hindeutet auf jene innere menschliche Kraft, die immer weiter und weiter, immer höher und höher strebt, die zwar eingeengt wird von dem, was uns umgibt, die gehemmt wird in jedem Augenblick von dem, was uns von außen, von allen Seiten als das Sinnliche, als die hemmende Kraft aufgedrängt wird, die aber dennoch ein Mittel hat, zur inneren, zur Welterkenntnis zu kommen. Goethe sagt in diesem Gedichte «Die Geheimnisse», in dem er von einer besonderen Einweihung der Rosenkreuzer spricht und damit das Prinzip der Einweihung in tiefsinnigen Worten andeutet:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/56/1907-11-28/p005"}],"english":["GA 56/1907-11-28/p005"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":144,"en_words":139,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8289,"original_word_count":8015,"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/eLib2015/19071128p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 56/1907-11-28/p005"],"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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