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Only through an external force that approaches us can the inner germ in human beings develop. Only when we can freely open our souls to the messages about the higher worlds do we receive the first impetus to develop the higher powers that ultimately make us seers, initiates.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Initiation or Consecration","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-11-28","location":null,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-11-28/p011","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/p011"},{"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/p011","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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Dieser hätte auch sagen können: Warum soll ich mir etwas entwickeln lassen, damit ich die Sonne und das Licht erkennen kann? Vorher hat er die Sonne und das Licht nicht gekannt. Erst durch eine fremde Gewalt, die an uns herantritt, kann sich die innere Keimanlage im Menschen entwickeln. Nur wenn wir die Seele frei öffnen können den Mitteilungen über die höheren Welten, bekommen wir den ersten Anstoß, die höheren Kräfte zu entwickeln, die uns zuletzt zu Sehenden, zu Eingeweihten machen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/56/1907-11-28/p011"}],"english":["GA 56/1907-11-28/p011"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":187,"en_words":192,"ratio":1.03,"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/p011"],"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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