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But when higher spiritual knowledge, such as anthroposophical research strives for, enters into this life, then ordinary thoughts are, as it were, raised into a higher sphere, just as that which is continually dying and decaying in man, that which is a continually active corpse with the destructive forces that dissolve its form, is raised into life. And we have – my dear audience – a self-living process before us in the transition from ordinary knowledge to anthroposophical knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Und man entdeckt das große Gesetz des menschlichen Daseins, das, weil in uns die Gedanken-Erkenntniskräfte mit den Todeskräften verbunden sind, wir deswegen auch nur für die gewöhnliche Erkenntnis das Unorganische, das Leblose erkennen können. Dadurch aber, dass höhere Geist-Erkenntnis, wie sie die anthroposophische Forschung anstrebt, in dieses Leben hereintritt, dadurch werden die gewöhnlichen Gedanken gewissermaßen so in eine höhere Sphäre heraufgerückt, wie dasjenige, was im Menschen fortwährend Tod und Sterben, was ein fortwährend wirkender Leichnam mit den Zerstörungskräften ist, die seine Form auflösen, wie das ins Leben heraufgerückt wird. 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