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But it is not so simple. Often we cannot fit a historical figure into such a scheme if we wish to understand it correctly. We must go about the matter in a much more complicated way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Tenth Lecture","site_heading":"Initiation, Christ, and Humanity's Spiritual Redemption","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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Trotzdem sich A. P. Blavatsky viel Mühe gab, ihren intimen Schülern zu zeigen, wie kompliziert diese Geheimnisse liegen, wird das heute doch noch nicht richtig verstanden. Man stellt sich einfach vor, daß eine Seele immer wieder in einen Körper geht. So einfach liegt das nicht. Wir können oftmals eine historische Gestalt nicht in ein solches Schema bringen, wenn wir sie richtig verstehen wollen. 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