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Because we bring our habits of perception from the physical plane into the spiritual world and retain our underlying mode of experiencing things, we are left with the illusion of being able to “observe the cosmic beings,” and cannot ascend to that other fundamental experience of being observed by them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-12","location":null,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Catherine E. 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Und es gibt nicht wenige Menschen, die haben die Vorstellung: geradeso, wie sie hier in diesem Saale unter physischen Menschen stehen, so könnten sie auch eine Geisterversammlung betreten, und in dieser Geisterversammlung seien die Geister nun genau ebenso versammelt - nur etwas dünner, so daß man durch sie durchgreifen kann — wie auf dem physischen Plan die Menschen. 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