32. The Origin of Man
GA 68b/1907-10-31/p029
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One must not deny that what often calls itself Theosophy is also tainted by this materialism; materialism has taken hold in such a way that the opponents of materialism themselves work with materialistic ideas. People must gradually educate themselves to imagine the separation of the etheric body from the physical body and to know that when using spatial expressions, they should be understood as images or as a parable.
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