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This means that we remain with our “I” back in the spiritual world (this is meant in a specific sense). Humanity ought to become conscious of this fact. And humanity is only able to become conscious of this fact because at a certain time the Christ descended out of those worlds to which the human being belongs, out of the spiritual worlds. In the body of Jesus He prepared for Himself, in the way we know, in a twofold way, what was to serve Him as body on the earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"A Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-12-19","location":null,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157a/1915-12-19/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"G. Karnow and A. 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