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I myself am full of egoism — but I am predestined to become the image of my divine archetype. This archetype rested in the bosom of the deity—it descended to this physical form, and this form is under the power of the God who stands above my destiny, my karma, which is completely saturated with egoism. Never, never may I say that I am without egoism; that is never true—I cannot even be without egoism in the physical world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Spiritual Discernment and the Rosicrucian Path to Higher Worlds","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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