{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 97/1906-02-12/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"John said so first of all in his introduction. This is a meditative prayer from the beginning to ‘and the darknesses did not comprehend it.’ When the soul gains living experience of what lies in those words, the powers arise that enable us to grasp the content of chapters 1 to 12. ‘In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was a god.’ This ancient truth was presented in visible form in all the ancient mysteries, above all those with an Egyptian bias.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Gospel of John as an Initiation Document I","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-02-12","location":null,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/97/1906-02-12/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2000","book_title":"The Christian Mystery","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA097/English/CMP2000/19060212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1906-02-12/p008"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/97/1906-02-12/p008","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. 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":"Notizen von einunddreißig Einzelvorträgen mit sechs Fragenbeantwortungen","evidence_translation":"Notes of thirty-one single lectures with six question-answerings","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 97/1906-02-12/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Das spricht Johannes in seinem Evangelium zuerst in der Einleitung aus. Es ist ein meditatives Gebet, vom Anfang bis zu dem Satze «die Finsternisse begriffen nicht das Licht». Wenn die Seele erlebt, was in diesen Sätzen liegt, dann werden die Kräfte erweckt, um den Inhalt von Kapitel eins bis zwölf zu verstehen. «Im Anfang war das Wort, und das Wort war bei Gott, und ein Gott war das Wort.» Diese alte Wahrheit wurde in allen alten Mysterien, besonders in denen mit ägyptischer Färbung, anschaulich dargestellt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":85,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1906-02-12/p008"}],"english":["GA 97/1906-02-12/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":85,"en_words":90,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.14,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2352,"original_word_count":2056,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2000","book_title":"The Christian Mystery","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA097/English/CMP2000/19060212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 97/1906-02-12/p008"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}