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Height and breadth are two dimensions; the third dimension leads out into the fourth. In astral space a different geometry prevails.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. Occult Development","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-09-02","location":null,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-09-02/p035","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E.H. 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The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Vierzehn Vorträge und zwei Fragenbeantwortungen (Hörernotizen)","evidence_translation":"Fourteen lectures and two question-answerings (listeners' notes)","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-09-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":155,"en_words":154,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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