Our Thought Life in Sleep and Wakefulness and in the Afterlife

GA 224/1923-06-21/p020 ·1923-06-21 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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These things will also gain practical significance later on, when anthroposophy becomes more integrated into the civilization of humanity as a whole. One cannot even begin to measure how much despondency and lack of energy in the soul today comes in a semi-conscious, unconscious way from thoughts about heredity, because science in particular can only speak about these hereditary relationships in a completely inadequate way. But these things have already passed into art, have passed into general human thinking.

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