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A light green—already thought of as a complementary color—would mean that the person cannot detach themselves from everything closely connected with their physicality. A dark green indicates a striving for the spiritual, blue a particularly strong striving for the spiritual. These colors then become transparent to us. These are the colors of the etheric body. All this only works if we feel it inwardly.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Maya, Spiritual Perception, and Esoteric Development","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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