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The first condition for understanding what happened at Golgotha is to experience Christ in one's own soul. And that is the significance of the theosophical movement: there are people, men and women, who, from their own experience, are informed about the truth of Christianity; they have had the practical experience of inner experience and can therefore speak about it in this way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"11. 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