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At the end of the sixth day of creation it says: “And God rested on the seventh day.” God had been active during the Saturn, Sun, and Moon evolutions, and He rested on the seventh day after the world was created; then God was nowhere to be found until the horizon of our Earth's evolution. He was invisible, and that has a profound meaning.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Maya, the Doppelgänger, and Spiritual Awakening","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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