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Materialistic science and industrial technology would condemn humanity to earthly death, that is, they would craft a completely different world in which human beings live on as a kind of petrified fossils for the edification of ahrimanic spirits, and this will happen unless spiritual understanding of Christ spreads through the mechanization of our age.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Luciferic and Ahrimanic Forces in Human Evolution","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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Wie diese Erlösung bildhaft vorgestellt werden kann, ich habe es ja in meinen Mysteriendramen von den mannigfaltigsten Seiten aus dargestellt. Aber es würde ein Überwinden des Menschen durch Ahriman sein, wenn die Christus-Auffassung nicht als eine wirklich durchgeistigte Auffassung, enttheologisiert, sich weiter gestalten könnte. 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