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This is the same as Wotan, the one riding in the air stream, the one blowing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"30. The Bible and Wisdom","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-04-25","location":null,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-04-25/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070425p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Die für das frühere dämmerhafte Bewusstsein des Menschen geltende Form, ihnen die Wahrheiten nahezubringen, war die bildhafte, so erscheint in den alten Religionsurkunden das Ich auch zugleich als das Wehende, das in der Luft hinwehende. Das ist die Wahrheit, die sich im Atmungsprozess individualisiert. 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