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We shall stretch far out again when the Earth’s mission is fulfilled through man having achieved on the Earth what can be achieved there and only there. We accepted this enchantment in order that man might become a free being on the Earth. When freedom has been won for man, release from our enchantment can also begin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Mineral, Plant And Animal Creation","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-12-01","location":null,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-12-01/p038","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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Denn wieder werde ich einstmals mit meiner Wesenheit das Weltenall erfüllen. - Und wenn man so die Sprache der Metalle kennenlernt, dann erzählt eben das Gold von der Sonne, das Blei von dem Saturn, das Kupfer von der Venus, und dann sagen einem diese Metalle: Wie wir einstmals gereicht haben, das Kupfer bis zur Venus, das Blei bis zum Saturn, so sind wir heute hier verzaubert und werden wiederum da hinausreichen, wenn die Erde ihre Aufgabe erfüllt, daß nun der Mensch gerade dasjenige auf der Erde erreiche, was er nur auf der Erde erreichen konnte. Denn deshalb gingen wir in diese Verzauberung ein, damit der Mensch auf Erden ein freies Wesen werden konnte. 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