Lecture II

GA 161/1915-05-01/p016 ·1915-05-01 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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My dear friends, here something must be said that it is dangerous to put into words—or in any case not without danger. Why would Otto Liebmann, had he picked up a book on spiritual science, have certainly said: I find this really foolish, ridiculous—while standing himself at the very gates of the spiritual world? Why was he living in such strange self-deception—standing before the gates but, the door being opened to him, saying: No, I am not entering—why? It is certainly not very reasonable!

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