10. The Significance of Central Europe's Position Between East and West—Ahrimanic Inspiration and Spiritual Impulses

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We are also heavily burdened in Central Europe, even in the case of a victory. Because we are connected with something that is infiltrated very luciferically. It was once a benefit for Europe that from South Europe the Arabian, Moorish culture spread out. For the past, it was justified, but today it has become ahrimanic. We are heavily burdened with the alliance with the Ottoman Empire.[^1] We have to find the correct standpoint and not believe that we can arrange our sensations according to external political viewpoints.

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