14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?
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Record: mixed sources. This volume draws on more than one kind of record (transcripts, notes, documents). Check the volume's own front matter before weighing a single passage. Evidence: «Im Anhang Notizen und Berichte von weiteren Vorträgen» (In the appendix, notes and reports of further lectures). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
But there is another way of measuring the value of thoughts: as an inner means of self-education for the soul. It could be, for example, that they do not correspond to reality in their representation, but that they prove to advance the soul inwardly. Such thoughts, or those used in this way, come into consideration when the soul truly wants to educate itself to self-knowledge.
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