17. Meditations on the New Year: The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year

GA 165/1915-12-31/p035 ·1915-12-31 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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We really only see the world in the true light, when we grasp what is around us, not only as it is presented to our senses,—as materialists do—but when we accept all that is about us in the outer world as a symbol of the great secrets of the universe.

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