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And whatever one experienced inwardly in terms of pain or joy, or even what another being could feel, was imitated in the vowel. From this you can see that in ancient times the soul grew together with the external processes or entities in a speaking way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-06-07","location":null,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110607s01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Das Wehen des Windes, das Rauschen der Wellen, das Geschütztsein durch ein Haus empfand man und ahmte es nach durch Konsonanten. Und was man innerlich erlebte an Schmerz oder Freude oder auch, was ein anderes Wesen empfinden konnte, das ahmte man nach im Vokal. 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