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But to experience the pulse-beat of outer existence as we do our own innermost being, to take part once more in the cycle of the seasons as we experience the life inside our own skin—that is the preparation needed for the Michael Festival.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Michael's Victory: Awakening the Soul's Spiritual Confidence","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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