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But, therefore, a method also had to be created for those who wanted to rise into the higher worlds, by which they could become strong and robust enough to be able to achieve the ascent into the spiritual worlds, despite the external materialistic circumstances.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Aber es mußte daher auch für diejenigen, welche in die höheren Welten aufsteigen wollten, eine Methode geschaffen werden, durch die sie stark und kräftig genug wurden, um ihnen, trotz dieser äußeren materialistischen Verhältnisse, ein Aufsteigen in die geistigen Welten zu ermöglichen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/98/the_rosicrucian_initiation/p015"}],"english":["GA 98/the_rosicrucian_initiation/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":165,"en_words":168,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.28,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6891,"original_word_count":5375,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Antje Heymanns","identified_edition":"SOL2023","book_title":"Nature and Spirit Beings — Their Effects in Our Visible World","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA098/English/SOL2023/098-03_1907-12-15.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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