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There he absorbed much Mohammedan-Asiatic learning in the form into which it had already been re-cast in Spain; also much of the lore that had been spread far and wide by the Jews—it was not, however, the Cabbalism that was so universally cultivated later on, in the Middle Ages, but an older form of Cabbalism. And so in the early years after the Mohammedan campaigns we find this personality steeped in Mohammedanism but working along particular lines: reckoning, calculating, according to Cabbalistic principles.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Influence of the Hierarchies, Planetary Beings, Voltaire","site_heading":"Karma Elaboration in Planetary Spheres Between Deaths","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Und die Persönlichkeit, die ich meine, hat solche Mysterienstudien durchgemacht, durchgemacht also all das, was man erfahren konnte durch ein solches Studium über die Selbständigkeit der Menschenseele, über die Regionen, welche die Menschenseele erlebt, wenn sie wahrnimmt frei vom Leibe und so weiter. Aber diese Persönlichkeit zog dann mit den mohammedanischen Zügen nach Spanien herüber, nahm da viel auf von der damals schon in Spanien transformierten mohammedanisch-asiatischen Gelehrsamkeit, nahm namentlich auch viel auf von dem, was durch die Juden überallhin verbreitet wurde, nahm auf nicht jene Kabbalistik, welche dann später im Mittelalter so viel gepflegt worden ist, aber eine ältere Form der Kabbalistik. Und so wurde sie in der ersten Zeit nach den mohammedanischen Zügen eine Persönlichkeit, die stark im Geistesleben dieser mohammedanischen Richtung drinnen war, aber auf eine besondere Art: rechnend, berechnend, auf kabbalistische Art.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-29/p028"}],"english":["GA 236/1924-05-29/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":204,"en_words":223,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4185,"original_word_count":4220,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. Revised by M. Cotterell, C. Davy and D.S. 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