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In this respect, Anthroposophy will help forward human evolution very rapidly.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Life's Meaning Through Spiritual Science and Reincarnation","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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