14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?

GA 69d/1913-03-09/p021 ·1913-03-09 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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How can they do this? By denying the spiritual world; in this way they push the spiritual world down, so that materialists and monists have a fear of the spiritual world in the depths of their souls and thereby numb themselves in their materialism. [It is] a very strange phenomenon, but it is true that materialism is based on unrecognized, unnamed fear. Certainly, it is uncomfortable when the soul expert claims, when such statements are made in a monist gathering, as is currently the case, that this is [therefore] because the professed believers are tormented by fear and anxiety. Materialism and fear-mongering present themselves in this way to real observation.

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