{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 97/1907-03-17/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us now consider once more the ancient communities—extending from the tribal community to the nation. How may these human beings, who are not yet individually free, be drawn together? Imagine to yourselves that everyone who is sitting here has become truly free—that the Spirit of Truth lives in each one! Would we, in that case, ever quarrel, ever fall into dissension? No—for where the Spirit unites us, there can be no divergence of opinions. In ancient times, external law had to hold sway, in order to hold human beings together. Where two human beings know the Spirit of Truth, they will, because of this, feel themselves drawn to each other.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Sin Against the Holy Ghost and the Ideal of Christian Grace","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-17","location":null,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/97/1907-03-17/p040","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Christian Mystery","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA097/English/Singles/19070317p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/97/1907-03-17/p040","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."},"other_renderings":{"loci":[{"locus":"GA 97/1907-03-17_02","ga":"97","lecture":"1907-03-17_02","kind":"renderings","relation":"another translation or transcription of the same lecture"}],"note":"The same lecture is also served at the loci listed, each with how it relates to this one. They are ONE witness, not independent attestations: quote the rendering you fetched, and do not cite another as corroborating it. Wording differs between translations, so a quotation found in one need not occur in the other."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-03-17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 97/1907-03-17/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1907-03-17/p032"},{"locus":"GA 97/1907-03-17/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1907-03-17/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":138,"en_words":162,"ratio":1.17,"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."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 97/1907-03-17/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Nun denken Sie noch kurz an jene alten Gemeinschaften von der Stammes- bis zur Volksgemeinschaft. Wie kann man diese Menschen zusammenbringen, die nicht individuell frei geworden sind? Denken Sie sich, alle Hiersitzenden wären frei geworden, in ihnen allen lebte der Geist der Wahrheit! Werden wir je streiten, je in Unfrieden kommen? Nein, denn Standpunkte gibt es nicht, wenn uns nur der Geist vereinigt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":63,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1907-03-17/p032"},{"locus":"GA 97/1907-03-17/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"In alten Zeiten mußte das äußere Gesetz walten, um die Menschen zusammenzuhalten. Zwei Menschen, die den Geist der Wahrheit kennen, werden sich von selbst zueinander hingezogen fühlen. So steht am Beginn der Menschheitsentwickelung das Gesetz, am Ende von innen heraus das friedliche, harmonische Zusammenarbeiten. Das nennt man im esoterischen Christentum, im Gegensatz zum Gesetz, die Gnade. Nichts anderes als die Fähigkeit, mit dem anderen im vollen Frieden mitzufühlen, das ist der tiefste Begriff des Christentums.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1907-03-17/p033"}],"english":["GA 97/1907-03-17/p040","GA 97/1907-03-17/p041"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":138,"en_words":162,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.22,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4694,"original_word_count":3850,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Christian Mystery","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA097/English/Singles/19070317p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing.","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 97/1907-03-17/p032","GA 97/1907-03-17/p033"],"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."}}