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Those spirits who are always striving to work against man—the Ahrimanic spirits—then become active in nature, encompassing man with pictures of every kind, so that in this case, too, human beings are occultly imprisoned.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"13. The Entry of Man into the Era of Freedom","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-08-31","location":null,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/227/1923-08-31_02/p038","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Violet E. 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