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Und wenn man zum Beispiel den Blick auf jene Persönlichkeiten hinwendet, die aus dem Arabismus, aus der Kultur Asiens heraus auf der einen Seite beeinflußt waren von dem, was im Mohammedanismus als Religion sich ausgelebt hat, auf der anderen Seite aber auch beeinflußt waren von dem Aristotelismus, wenn man auf diese Persönlichkeiten schaut, die dann den Weg herüber über Afrika nach Spanien gefunden haben, die dann tief beeinflußt haben die Geister Europas, bis zu Spinoza und über Spinoza hinaus wiederum weiter die Geister Europas beeinflußt haben, dann gewinnt man über sie keine Anschauung, wenn man sich ihre Seelenverfassung so vorstellt, wie wenn sie einfach Menschen der Gegenwart gewesen wären, nur daß sie so und so viele Dinge noch nicht gewußt haben, die später gefunden worden sind. Denn so ungefähr stellt man sie sich ja vor. Aber die Denk- und Anschauungsweise auch noch derjenigen Persönlichkeiten aus der angedeuteten Zivilisationsrichtung, die etwa im 12. 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Sie dachten wohl: «ich fühle, ich will», aber sie dachten durchaus nicht in demselben Maße: «ich denke», sondern sie sagten sich — und das ist eine ganz reale Anschauung gewesen, die ich Ihnen jetzt mitteilen will —: Gedanken sind in der sublunarischen Sphäre, da leben die Gedanken. — Überall sind diese Gedanken in derjenigen Sphäre, die gegeben ist dadurch, daß wir uns die Erde (siehe Zeichnung, blau) vorstellen an einem gewissen Punkt, den Mond hier an einem anderen, dann Merkur, Venus und so weiter. 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