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Before that can happen, however, as many of you can testify, they have only too often fled and ceased treatment!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"The Heart as Mediating Organ: Upper and Lower Polarities","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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