8. What is Mortal in Man?

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Spiritual science differs fundamentally from what is usually called a philosophical way of thinking today. Philosophical thinking, which seeks above all to arrive at its results through considerations of reason, through mere combinations of concepts, through conclusions and the like, — philosophical thinking, as it is often understood today, is not capable of grasping that in human nature which really passes through the gate of death, which is truly capable of living independently of corporeality, of physicality.

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