12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

GA 63/1914-04-23/p027 ·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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One might say: in the present, one is not able to believe in this spiritual breathing. In the future, one will be able to believe in the inner heart for spiritual breathing and thereby develop human freedom for the soul. Just as what man is as a living being can only be developed by his ability not only to breathe in the air within him, but also to transform it in a living way and to develop a separate living organism in a subtle way, physically, so will he develop more and more inner spiritual blood that enlivens him spiritually, and it is by being active and transforming external knowledge and external insight that human beings become truly free beings.

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