8. Potential Aberrations in Spiritual Investigation

GA 243/1924-08-19/p019 ·1924-08-19 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
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Just as the belladonna mediates the astral world—acts as a medium for certain astral forces that it absorbs into its fruit—so a human being through his particular type of brain is a medium for these elementary beings who at some future time must participate in our civilization, because men cannot carry over everything from one earthly life to another. This is the real secret of mediumship—possession by a certain class of beings.

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