Fourth Lecture
And even if we do not physically live in catacombs, spiritually we are still in such catacombs, and we feel correctly when we feel ourselves spiritually in such catacombs, as it were. We only feel our building correctly when we symbolically say to ourselves: Out there in the sunshine, the dome of our building shines with its gray-glistening slate roof. But we are under this vault; above all, spiritually we are under this vault.
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