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However, I can give the child an experience of the immortality of the soul through artistically formed pictures. I could say, “Look at a butterfly’s cocoon and how the butterfly breaks through the cocoon. It flies away and moves about in the sunlight. The human soul in the human body is the same as the butterfly in the cocoon. When a human being passes through the gates of death, the soul leaves the body and then moves about in the spiritual world.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Art of Teaching from an Understanding of the Human Being","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-11-20","location":null,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/218/1922-11-20/p023","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Nancy Parsons Whittaker and Robert F. 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