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Then we will understand how it is that the higher human being, which has been placed into physical existence, is actually chained to matter during the fifth epoch, through the fact that man's astral body seeks its satisfaction within the realm of matter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Prometheus Saga","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-10-07","location":null,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1904-10-07/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. 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