{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 102/1908-02-15/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The purpose of these lectures is to bring still loftier concepts to those more advanced students of theosophy who have been familiar for some time with its world-conception and—which is much more important—have become at home in its way of thinking and feeling. This will make it more difficult for the later-comers to follow; perhaps they are well able to follow with their understanding, but it will become increasingly difficult for them to regard as sound and reasonable what is brought forward from the higher sections of theosophy. Much goodwill, therefore, will be required of new-comers to follow these group-lectures with the understanding of feeling and perception. Yet we should make no progress if we had no opportunity of throwing light upon the higher realms of spiritual existence as well. That then is the purpose of these lectures.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Spiritual Beings and Planetary Formation in Cosmic Evolution","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Daher wird namentlich für diejenigen, die erst kürzere Zeit hier sind, ein gutes Stück guter Wille dazugehören, diesen Zweigvorträgen mit dem Gefühls- und Empfindungsverständnis zu folgen. Es muß aber immer wieder betont werden, daß wir nicht weiterkommen würden, wenn wir nicht Gelegenheit hätten, an irgendeinem Orte auch in die höheren Partien des geistigen Daseins hineinzuleuchten. 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