{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1906-01-02/p056","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When in the past Abel sacrificed what he had been given by Divine hand, he was thus sacrificing, in the realm of the living, only what he had received from nature. Cain, by contrast, had offered something which he had himself won from the earth by his own labour, as the fruits of effort.[^20] Hence, at this time [in the Middle Ages], a radically new impulse was introduced into Freemasonry. And this impulse is that denoted by the symbol of the Holy Grail, the power of self-sacrifice. I have often said, harmony in human relationships is not brought about by preaching it, but by creating it. Once the necessary forces have been awakened in human nature, there is no more unbrotherliness. [The concepts of] majority and minority are meaningless in what the masonic symbols express; in it there can be no contention, for it is only a matter of ‘can’ or ‘cannot.’","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":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1906-01-02/p056","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. Wood","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"The Temple Legend","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093/English/RSP1985/19060102p01.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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Wo wirkliche Kräfte in der Menschennatur erweckt sind, gibt es keine Unbrüderlichkeit mehr. In dem, was in den Freimaurersymbolen zum Ausdruck kommt, haben Majorität und Minorität keine Bedeutung. Streit kann es da nicht geben, denn es handelt sich nur um Können oder Nichtkönnen. Keine Majorität kann entscheiden, ob das Senkblei oder die Wasserwaage benutzt werden soll; da muß die Sache entscheiden. Darin sind alle Menschen brüderlich, da finden sich alle zusammen. Darüber kann kein Streit sein, wenn jeder den Weg des Objektiven geht, den Weg, der in der Erwerbung der höheren Kräfte besteht. So ist der Bund [der Freimaurer] selbstverständlich ein Bund der Brüderlichkeit, der sich in ausgedehntestem Maße auf das den Menschen Gemeinsame in der unlebendigen Natur stützt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1906-01-02/p056"}],"english":["GA 93/1906-01-02/p056","GA 93/1906-01-02/p057"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":224,"en_words":235,"ratio":1.05,"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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