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And there is no doubt that a flood of light is shed on the words of the great Greek philosophers when we illuminate them from the Mysteries.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":59,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l03/p002","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 8/l02/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l02/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":143,"en_words":170,"ratio":1.19,"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."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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