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We must know that if our etheric bodies are to be strong enough to correct the faults of our physical bodies, this strength must come from people learning to take seriously and truthfully what comes to them from the etheric world. Then this will have an increasingly healing effect on the future. To this end, we must above all take up spiritual science so that we are prepared when the time comes to see the etheric form of Christ, so that we know how to take this seriously.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Thirteenth Lecture","site_heading":"Modern Consciousness and the Struggle for Spiritual Knowledge","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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Wenn diese Weltanschauung siegen würde, dann käme das, was ich geschildert habe. Aber diese Weltanschauung darf nicht siegen, das muß unsere unverwüstliche Überzeugung sein. Wissen müssen wir: wenn unsere Ätherleiber so stark sein sollen, daß sie die Fehler unseres physischen Leibes korrigieren können, so muß diese Stärke dadurch herauskommen, daß die Menschen lernen werden für Ernst und Wahrheit zu nehmen, was ihnen aus der ätherischen Welt heraus entgegentreten wird. Dann wird das gegen die Zukunft immer mehr und mehr heilend wirken. 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