XII. Christ, Ahriman and Lucifer

GA 349/1923-05-07/p048 ·1923-05-07 · 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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What does today's medicine do? Today's medicine, yes, it tries things out. A chemist comes up with the discovery of phenacetin. I don't need to explain to you what that is; it is a complicated substance. Now one takes that into a hospital. There are thirty patients for my sake. You give all thirty patients phenacetin, take the clinical thermometer, measure, note, and if something comes out, you consider it a cure.

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