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This is because physical light is completely flooded with astral light, and that is what the eye has developed [from the human being]. So it is the astral that brings out and then chisels out the astral in the human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXIX. 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Schopenhauer [hielt nur die Vorstellung fest]: die Welt als Vorstellung. [Er sagte:] Ohne Auge kein Licht. Wahr ist aber auch: Ohne Licht kein Auge. Denn das physische Licht ist ganz durchflutet durch astralisches Licht, und das ist, was das Auge herausgebildet hat [aus dem Menschen]. 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