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If we are honest, however, we have to admit that we can never connect up our mental experience with what goes on outside in the material sphere. And at this deepest level of the soul, interwoven with our thinking, feeling and volition, are moral impulses and religious forces. They live within us, in the spiritual element we cannot reconcile with the material.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Anthroposophy and Cosmology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-05","location":null,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-05/p040","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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