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When we speak words, when we give a speech, these dead souls work in us because we have been prepared by sharing in these acts of ceremonial magic.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXI","site_heading":"Ceremonial Magic, Dead Souls, and Ahrimanic Immortality","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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Diese Menschen wissen zunächst: uns sind andere vorangegangen, die, welche so starke Herrschaftsmachtgedanken ausgeprägt haben, daß ihnen das Leben nicht genug war, um sie zu verwirklichen, daß sie sie über den Tod hinaus verwirklichen wollen. Für die schaffen wir einen Kreis, und durch das, was wir tun, durch die zeremoniellen magischen Handlungen, die wir vornehmen, wirken sie in unsere Leiber herein. Wir kriegen stärkere Macht dadurch, als wir haben, wir werden dadurch in die Lage versetzt, wenn wir den andern, schwachen Menschen, die außerhalb solcher Gesellschaften stehen, entgegentreten, eine gewisse gesteigerte magische Macht über sie auszuüben. 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