Eleventh Lecture

GA 319/1924-08-29/p050 ·1924-08-29 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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In the study of nature, we have strayed so far from the truth in this area that, for certain religiously egoistic reasons, because human beings want to know what will happen to them after death, we speak of immortality, but because human beings are already here, they are not interested in what came before birth or conception. But if we want to speak scientifically, we must speak of unbornness as well as immortality, for it is unbornness and immortality together that make up eternity.

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