{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1913-03-09/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"An important spiritual personality such as Charles Eliot of Harvard University emphasizes that he finds a spiritual reality behind the physical and sensory, that human beings are always distinct from their bodies. But when the spiritual researcher says that, after the self-education described, one comes to see individual spiritual beings that make up a cosmos, just as physical things make up a physical cosmos, this is rejected. If one were to say to Charles Eliot, when observing the plant world, with every plant or every substance in the laboratory: That is nature, that is nature, that is nature – nothing would be achieved by this. At most, spiritual science is forgiven for admitting spirit in general, but not individual beings and things of the spiritual world. 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