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At the base of all things we perceive the conscious Spirit and therefore the spiritual researcher sees how senseless is the question: Where does the Spirit come from?—That can never be the question. It is only possible to ask: Where does matter come from? For spiritual research matter has sprung from Spirit, is nothing but densified Spirit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. The Origin of Suffering","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-11-08","location":null,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1906-11-08_02/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Violet E. 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