4. The Spirit, Soul, and Body of Man

GA 67/1918-02-28/p010 ·1918-02-28 · 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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I would like to start with something that may be easier to understand in order to characterize what I actually mean. Anyone who engages in all kinds of reflections on this or that human or other life situation can, if they gradually acquire a feeling for it, discover differences between the representations of one person and the representations of another. They will find that one writer may be quite learned in what they say and may apply their particular method quite strictly, but that the way they say things is actually quite far removed from what is really happening in the nature of things. In contrast, with another writer, one can often say, without perhaps being inclined to examine what it is all about: simply by the way he talks about things, he is a person who is close to things, to their inner essence. While reading his lines, it conveys something that brings one really close to things. Here is an example:

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