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But this means that wisdom is shackled to the nerve-process; man draws near to Mephistopheles, and owing to this imprisonment of wisdom in the nerve-process, the premonition arose at the dawn of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch that Mephistopheles is shackled to the human being, stands at his side.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Lucifer, Ahriman, and Human Evolution: Spiritual Foundations","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1914-11-20","location":null,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277a/1914-11-20/p038","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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