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Or they like at least to go to presentations where they are told about things that they usually have before their eyes. But people avoid the effort of elevating themselves to concepts that are more difficult because they refer to no outer object, because their object is the facts to which they are related in the super-sensible world. Over there, however, they are the forces that first give the world to us in its reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mystery of the Double: Geographic Medicine","site_heading":"Geographic Medicine and the Ahrimanic Double in Human Nature","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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Sie gehen gern in solche Veranstaltungen, wo man ihnen allerlei Lichtbilder, oder was sonst von der Art da ist, vorführt, damit sie möglichst wenig übersinnlich zu denken brauchen, alles nur sehen können, oder mindestens gehen sie gern zu Veranstaltungen, wo ihnen von Dingen erzählt wird, die sie sonst auch immer vor Augen haben. Aber die Anstrengung scheut heute der Mensch, sich zu erheben zu solchen Begriffen, die hier schwieriger sind, weil sie kein äußeres Objekt haben, weil ihr Objekt die Tatsachen sind, auf die sie sich beziehen in der übersinnlichen Welt. 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