The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World

GA 168/1916-12-03/p014 ·1916-12-03 · 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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Thus, for a time, we ourselves carry within our ideas the essence of the dead, because we belong to the elemental world as etheric beings. When one speaks of monism and wants to stand on the ground of reality, one must speak mainly of the monism I have just indicated, of the monon that is formed from the interaction of the living and the dead. In truth, those who have passed through the gate of death are not at all far from us. They are much closer to us than we believe.

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