43. Blood is a Very Special Fluid
GA 68b/1907-01-11/p016
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The world is a great spiritual organism, and everything in it is a If someone says to you: Ice is not water, you can say that he does not know the context. Just as ice is nothing other than condensed water, so matter is nothing other than condensed spirit. In all material things we can find the underlying spirit. The true spiritual researcher calls spirit the upper part, the material, so to speak, the physiognomic expression, the lower part. When you look at a face, you can tell from the expression what is going on in the soul behind it, whether it is joy or sadness. To the true spiritual researcher, everything in the world, all of nature, is an expression of the spirit. For example, to the researcher, one flower is the expression of the joy of the earth spirit, another of pain.
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