{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1906-01-02/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today there are broadly two trends in Freemasonry. The one is represented by far the larger number of those calling themselves masons today. And this majority trend claims now that all masonry is comprised in what it terms the so-called Symbolic or Craft Masonry. Its principal outward characteristic is that it is divided into three degrees, the apprentice, journeyman and master degrees; as for the inward characteristics, we will have something to say presently. Apart from these Craft Masons, there are still quite a number of masons who maintain that Craft Masonry is only a product of the decline of the great universal masonic idea. [They consider] it would be a falling away from this great masonic idea, if it is claimed that masonry comprises only these three Symbolic or Craft degrees; whereas in fact the essence, the fundamental meaning of Freemasonry lies in the so-called Higher Degrees, which are best preserved in the so-called Scottish or Accepted Rite, which, in a particular respect, still conserves [a relic of] what is called the Egyptian, the Misraim or the Memphis Rite.[^7]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. The Royal Art in a New Form","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-02","location":null,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1906-01-02/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. 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Ein Abfall von dieser großen maurerischen Idee sei es, wenn behauptet wird, es umfasse die Maurerei nur diese drei symbolischen oder Johannesgrade, während doch das Wesentliche, die große Bedeutung der Maurerei in den sogenannten Hochgraden liege, die am reinsten bewahrt seien in dem sogenannten schottischen oder angenommenen Ritus, in welchem in gewisser Beziehung konserviert werde das, was man den ägyptischen Ritus, den Misraim- oder Memphisritus nennt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1906-01-02/p017"}],"english":["GA 93/1906-01-02/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":168,"en_words":180,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.23,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":13461,"original_word_count":10911,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"John M. 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