12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

GA 63/1914-04-23/p007 ·1914-04-23 · 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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Thus, what otherwise flows outward from our soul, as it were, is first applied to the work on this soul itself. This, however, brings about a mood of activity in the human being, a mood of inner activity, not that mood of simply accepting the world, of surrendering oneself to the world; and thus the forces that could be called the new forces of activity of the soul are called upon in the soul.

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