7. Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
GA 63/1914-01-15/p044
·1914-01-15
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Goethe let something be said in his Faust, that shows how a human being can lose their way away from the spirit. Mankind's distance from the spirit world is set out paradigmatically in a beautiful sentence with the words:
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