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In the great world outside, in the cosmos, the most powerfully working forces of cleavage produce in lead the substance in which these forces of cleavage are ultimately concentrated. If therefore you bring lead into the human body, you are bringing into it cosmic destruction, cosmic disintegration. Think what this means. You introduce the lead, by means of injection, into the blood-circulation. In the circulation of the blood we have an immediate reflection of the structure of the universe. The 25,000 years that the sun takes to go round the universe—these 25,000 years we have in the circulation, in the pulsation of the blood.[^2] And now you bring disintegrating forces straight into the organism. The cosmos, as we know, gives itself time to work; nevertheless, if we have a real insight into the matter, it will be evident to us that the introduction of such a substance as lead can be of real help.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Kleptomania, Hydrocephalus, and Curative Speech: Individual Cases","date":"1924-07-04","location":null,"word_count":281,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/317/1924-07-04/p023","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"identified_edition":"RSP1972","translator":"Mary Adams","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA317/English/RSP1972/CurEdu_index.html","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code, not stated by the source page. 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