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If it were actually possible in this creation of air-forms to pass from *a* to *z* in such a way that the a-sound remained when the *z*-sound were reached, thus creating in the air an image of the whole alphabet, what would be the result? What sort of form should we have made? We should have created the form of the human etheric body. In this way we should have reproduced the human etheric body. If you were to repeat the alphabet aloud from a to *z*—(one would have to do this in exactly the right way; the alphabetical order of sounds in general use to-day is no longer quite correct—but I am speaking now of the underlying principle)—the human etheric body would stand before you.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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