Our Thought Life in Sleep and Wakefulness and in the Afterlife

GA 224/1923-06-21/p028 ·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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It is something completely different whether something is happening in our blood process—which is then earthly—or whether something is happening in our nerve process. We are not aware of this because the substance of the spirit is so frozen that everything is reflected back. These are our thoughts that are reflected back. But we carry this duality within us, that we are constantly heavenly descendants and earthly seeds. Heavenly descendants and earthly seeds—both are polar opposites—work together.

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