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The wonderment that may be aroused by our modern life fades into nothingness in the face of what ancient Indian Culture has to offer. But on the other side, the Indian peoples lapsed into idolatry in its very crudest form. What is usually to be found in books on ancient Indian Culture is a jumble of ideas of gods and religious conceptions, and gives no true picture. Sharp distinction must be made between the idolatry prevailing among the people and the sublime, majestic spirit-world of the Brahmans. The great light-sides of the life of humanity always have their shadow-sides. Then in whose nation or race there have been individuals of high spiritual development have often themselves persisted in clinging to externalities.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Apocalyptic Vision and Human Evolutionary Stages","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1904-10-10","location":null,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90a/1904-10-10/p022","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"no_original_to_compare","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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