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The dead person is in an environment where there are beings like themselves, that is, soul beings, all the entities belonging to the higher hierarchies down to the human being, and through their discarded etheric body, which acts as a mediator, they can also have perceptions of the people who are, in a sense, veiled from them by the physical body; but he penetrates this veil with the help of his etheric body. Those who have passed through the gate of death are subject to the conditions under which one lives in the soul world and the spirit world, and they must submit to them. Now I need only point out one main thing, and you will understand what is actually meant here. We know that Luciferic and Ahrimanic forces are at work in the world in which we live in the most diverse ways. If these Luciferic and Ahrimanic forces did not exert their attraction on us, then what is expressed in human beings as wrong or evil actions would not exist in the world. The Luciferic and Ahrimanic must have an effect on human beings; they must give human beings the opportunity to follow them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-12-03","location":null,"word_count":335,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/168/1916-12-03/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Connection Between the Living and the Dead","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA168/English/SOL2024/19161203p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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