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The essential thing is that what is discovered through clairvoyant research shall be understood—as it *can* be understood—by ordinary human reason, healthy human reason. Clairvoyance is needed to investigate these things, but it is *not* needed for acquiring the faculty of sight in the supersensible world after death. And anyone who declares that ordinary knowledge acquired through healthy human reason does not give him eyes for supersensible existence but that for this he needs clairvoyance—anyone who speaks like this might just as well declare that man cannot think unless his eyes do the thinking. As little as in physical life the eyes need think, as little does knowledge of the supersensible worlds need clairvoyance for the purposes I have indicated today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. Rhythms of Earthly and Spiritual Life. 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