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When man has then come so far that he has developed his memory to such an extent - this is gnostic - that in retrospect he can survey the whole cosmological development, as I have now presented it as a general gnostic conception, in such a way that he has it before him not merely as a doctrine but as a fact, when man has again traveled a part of the path in such a way that he sees the rest lying clearly before his spirit, then he is the one who is able to make the waters of the Nile flow upward.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"21. 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