1. First Steps towards Imaginative Knowledge
GA 227/1923-08-19/p045
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English
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It is this subjective feeling of happiness which has inspired all those religious ideals and descriptions—in Mohammedanism, for instance—where life beyond the Earth is pictured in such glowing terms. They are an Imaginative result of this experience of happiness.
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