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The Law of Destiny","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-05-30","location":null,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-05-30/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1966","book_title":"Theosophy of the Rosicrucian","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA099/English/RSP1966/19070530p01.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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