How Do I Find the Christ?

GA 182/1918-10-16/p088 ·1918-10-16 · 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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Woodrow Wilson writes brilliantly, but he is possessed by something in his subconsciousness. It is a case of daimonic possession. There is something in his subconsciousness that inspires into him what he then writes down. It is the daimon who is speaking through his soul—the daimon who naturally manifests in a particular way in an American of the twentieth century. Hence the brilliance, the forcefulness!

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