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Then, if other things besides cars come to disturb us, we shall be able to press on by dint of our own strength and freedom, for freedom had to come, and it must lead us back to the Bodhisattva.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"11. Experience of the World's Past","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-08-29","location":null,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/227/1923-08-29/p045","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Violet E. 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