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You can refer to the exercises, they are all directed at what I am trying to describe—and you will find that everything that is carried out by way of exercises in the life of the soul is done as consciously, as reasonably, as precisely we may say, as are operations in mathematics or geometry.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy and Psychology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-02","location":null,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p022","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Nicht also sucht der moderne Mensch, der Geistiges erkennen will, wenn er ein besonnener Mensch ist, die auftauchenden Halluzinationen und Visionen; er strebt gerade nach dem Ideal, möchte ich sagen, des Sinneslebens in bezug auf dessen Intensität und dessen Bildhaftigkeit, in voll besonnener Weise im Gedankenleben, im Vorstellungsleben selbst. 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