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There are therefore many souls in the world that could be called derailed souls, but which really stand in opposition to themselves as their own enemies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"37. The Dangers of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-19","location":null,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-12-19/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19071219p01.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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