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Every spiritualistic séance is surrounded in fact by a garden of poisonous plants which no longer bear the same aspect as in the kingdom of the dead, but which grow up around the spiritualist circle, and from their fruits and flowers demoniac beings are seen to emerge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Potential Aberrations in Spiritual Investigation","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-08-19","location":null,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/243/1924-08-19/p033","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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