{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-07-01/p052","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But over against all this I will now tell you of a kind of conversation. Though it is not historically recorded, by spiritual research it can be discovered among the real things that happened. It was a conversation that took place between an older and a younger Dominican, somewhat as follows:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Thought, Individuality, and the Evolution of Consciousness","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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