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DOCTOR STRADER: Many words are being exchanged here that do not seem worthy of the great task before us. Thomasius came to the work that is now to bring such tremendous light in a strange way. At the beginning of his present earthly life, he was not devoted to science. As a creative artist, he wanted to reveal his soul. Through a spiritual current deeply related to that which now wants to raise its voice for him, he was led to a work that, free of prejudice, like a miracle. I saw him at work on pieces that dismayed me, because at that time I could not gauge the sources from which his talent had been bestowed upon him. For him, however, all this was only a preliminary stage. He needed the inner strength that artistic sensibility bestows in order to achieve greater things. He left art behind and immersed himself in the study of nature, so that after ardent effort, everything that humanity has so far achieved in terms of insight into the secrets of nature was revealed to him. In his soul, artistic skill married with knowledge, and the deed was born that is now to flow like a mighty stream of spiritual power into human souls. Is not the effect of Thomasius' deed already prefigured in his life? It comes from deeply mysterious sources: must it not also find its way to the people from whom it itself originated through the power of those sources?