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Rather, what I am now briefly indicating to you in principle requires years and years of inner, serious and dedicated soul work. This dedicated soul work is not appreciated by some people who know little about the subject. And so they believe that what is said in the field of spiritual science is something fantastic, plucked out of the blue. But that is not the case at all.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy as a Body of Knowledge and a Way of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-28","location":null,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19210128p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Aber man soll nur nicht glauben, dass das, was da zustande kommt dadurch, dass intime innere Seelenfähigkeiten entwickelt werden, etwa leichter sei als das Forschen im Laboratorium oder auf der Klinik oder dem astronomischen Observatorium. Sondern was ich Ihnen jetzt kurz prinzipiell andeuten will, erfordert Jahre, Jahre innerer, ernster und hingebungsvoller Seelenarbeit. Diese hingebungsvolle Seelenarbeit, die würdigen eben manche Menschen, die von der Sache wenig kennen, durchaus nicht. Und daher glauben sie, dass dasjenige, was auf dem Gebiete der Geisteswissenschaft gesagt wird, so, wie irgendetwas Phantastisches, aus dem Blauen heraus geholt wird. 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