VIII. The Factors of Life

GA 4/l08/p003 · RSPI1963 LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.

The view just characterized, the philosophy of feeling, is often called mysticism. The error in mysticism based on feeling alone is that the mystic wants to experience[^1] in feeling what should be attained as knowledge; he wants to develop something which is individual, into something universal.

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