43. Blood is a Very Special Fluid
GA 68b/1907-01-11/p032
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In terms of colonization, cultures can only develop where the blood mixing of the peoples allows a good tone together. Where this is not the case, where the blood mixing does not go together, the culture that is already present will be destroyed. Those who look into this will see that the introduction of European culture into distant countries often appears to be an illusion and a deception. In the future, a culture will come that will ask about this law. Then colonization will no longer be based on blind chance, but on the theosophical significance for indirect life.
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