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These hidden, dormant powers of memory are brought forth from the soul: powers of perception of the past. And when we properly immerse ourselves in spiritual science, we cultivate something over the course of our lives that continues our ordinary, acquired memory, whereby a person who truly grasps spiritual science in a living way remains equipped much longer with the ability to overview the past, as well as the opportunity to draw guiding forces for the future from the past, than someone who does not want to engage with spiritual science. Anyone who delves into such things in their finer distinctions will already notice how memory becomes something else, but not something less faithful, rather something that works more faithfully than the memory that is innate to us through our physical powers.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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Die Kräfte, die das Gedächtnis sonst nicht entwickelt, weil es für gewöhnlich einen Reservefonds im unmittelbaren Leiblichen hat, die verborgen bleiben, bis wir in die Jahre kommen, diese verborgen schlummernden Gedächtniskräfte werden hervorgeholt aus der Seele: Anschauungskräfte des Vergangenen. Und bei richtigem Einleben in die Geisteswissenschaft anerziehen wir uns im Laufe des Lebens etwas, was unser gewöhnliches, anerzogenes Gedächtnis fortsetzt, wodurch ein Mensch, der wirklich Geisteswissenschaft lebendig ergreift, viel länger ausgestattet bleibt mit der Möglichkeit, Vergangenes zu überschauen, wie auch die Möglichkeit bekommt, sich aus dem Vergangenen Richtkräfte für die Zukunft zu holen, als einer, der sich nicht auf Geisteswissenschaft einlassen will. 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