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This initiation science has to select all manner of ways of expressing what, despite everything, will be far richer in its manifestation than any possible means of expression.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Luciferic and Ahrimanic Polarities 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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