Karma Viewed from the Standpoint of World History
GA 236/1924-06-29/p048
·1924-06-29
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English
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What is carried up into the spiritual world through impulses in civilisation arising from sheer emotionalism, from blind, misguided earthly consciousness—this, in different guise, is what bursts from the earth's interior in the form of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and the like.
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