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The language that alone can be given in the tones of song became his expression of what surpasses the physically human as superhuman.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XI","site_heading":"Spiritual Beings, Human Art, and Divine Dwelling","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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