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However, someone who wants to go through a normal development will easily notice from the three things Benedictus gave Capesius as examples, how senseless it is to wish to eliminate Ahriman and Lucifer from human evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Navigating Lucifer and Ahriman Through the Word","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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Aber sie wirkt überhaupt zurück. Man wolle sich nur einmal den Fortschritt der Kultur vor Augen stellen; man wird finden, wie gerade mit fortschreitender Kultur die Sprache das Lebensvolle, das Elementarische, das Organische, das auf dem Grund und Boden gewachsen ist, verliert, wie die Menschen immer mehr und mehr eine Art Büchersprache sprechen. Da wirkt von der anderen Seite das Ahrimanische, das im Schrifttum immer ist, wiederum auf das Wort zurück. 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