42. Blood is a Very Special Fluid
GA 68b/1906-11-30/p012
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Theosophy or spiritual science distinguishes, in addition to the body that we have in common with all inanimate nature, an etheric or life body, but understands it to mean something different from the physicist's understanding of ether. While science previously assumed only the physical, it too has recently come to recognize a kind of life principle. But while science reaches its knowledge only through logic and reasoning, the theosophist has gained his knowledge by developing abilities within himself that lie dormant in everyone. We call such a developed person an “awakened one,” that is, the spiritual world opens up to him.
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