12. In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism
GA 273/1919-01-19/p030
·1919-01-19
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English
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In short, my dear friends, abstract mysticism, the ‘easy understanding of the divine within’, from which nothing results but a terrible egotistical abstraction—this abstract mysticism is just as bad as materialism.
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