{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-19/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"How should this be understood? Let us take an example. Someone is asked to sacrifice all their cash. One person sacrifices fifty pfennigs, another twenty thousand marks. But both sacrifice everything they have. If these sacrifices are to help, then it is clear that twenty thousand marks will help much more than fifty pfennigs. So one must compare the sacrifice of a personality who has nothing within him, who perhaps has no particular ego at all, with the sacrifice of a personality who has accumulated within himself enormous energy and strength. What good does it do humanity to sacrifice a human being who is still nothing? The personality must first make itself strong and energetic; it depends on how it is sacrificed, not what is sacrificed. Man must know that egoism is a healthy force; it drives man to obey the sentence:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"37. The Dangers of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-19","location":null,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-12-19/p023","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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"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/68a/1907-12-19/p023"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-12-19/p023","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. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-12-19","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-19/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-12-19/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":153,"en_words":142,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-19/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wie ist das aufzufassen? Wir wollen da einen Vergleich nehmen. Man fordert, jemand sollte alles opfern, was, er an Bargeld besitze. Einer opfert da 50 Pfennig, ein anderer 20000 Mark. Beide aber opfern alles, was sie haben. Wenn geholfen werden soll durch diese Opfer, so kann man selbstverständlich viel mehr helfen mit den 20000 Mark als mit 50 Pfennig. So muss man vergleichen das Hinopfern der Persönlichkeit von einem, der noch gar nichts in sich hat, der vielleicht gar kein besonderes Ich hat, mit dem Hinopfern einer Persönlichkeit, die an Energie, an Kräften Gewaltiges in sich angesammelt hat. Was ist der Menschheit gedient mit dem Hinopfern eines Menschen, der noch nichts ist? Die Persönlichkeit muss sich erst selber kräftig, energisch gemacht haben; es kommt darauf an, wie geopfert wird, nicht was geopfert wird. Der Mensch muss wissen, dass der Egoismus eine gesunde Kraft ist; sie treibt den Menschen an, den Satz zu befolgen:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-12-19/p023"}],"english":["GA 68a/1907-12-19/p023"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":153,"en_words":142,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4964,"original_word_count":4825,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 68a/1907-12-19/p023"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}