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Suppose that it stood in relations with the power above described, and also with a third power to be mentioned below, such that we had reason to fear that they might act in concert to our detriment.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XIII","site_heading":"Spiritual Causes Behind Historical Events and Social Disease","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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