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Above all, at the moment when, through the method described, one succeeds in detaching the inner power of thought from the support it has in the brain, at the moment when one's thinking in one's soul-spiritual experience rises out of one's body — I because it is literally correct — in the same moment when man's eternal powers are truly glimpsed in the soul, in this moment, a spiritual researcher feels as if, I would like to say, they could experience the growth of the plant.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"13. The Value of Extrasensory Knowledge for the Human Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-05-06","location":null,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70a/1915-05-06/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul, Fate and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070a/English/SOL2024/19150506p01.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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Vor allen Dingen in dem Augenblicke, wo man dahin gelangt, durch jene Methode, die geschildert worden ist, die innere Kraft des Denkens loszulösen von jener Unterstützung, die sie im Gehirn hat, in dem Augenblick, wo man mit seinem Denken in seinem seelisch-geistigen Erleben aus seinem Leibe - ich darf es sagen, weil es wörtlich richtig ist — heraussteigt, in demselben Augenblicke, wo wirklich des Menschen ewige Kräfte in der Seele geschaut werden, in diesem Augenblicke fühlt man sich als Geistesforscher so, wie wenn man, ich möchte sagen in der Pflanze deren Wachsen erleben könnte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70a/1915-05-06/p026"}],"english":["GA 70a/1915-05-06/p026"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":158,"en_words":149,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9860,"original_word_count":9579,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul, Fate and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070a/English/SOL2024/19150506p01.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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