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The human being is [indeed] productive there, but what manifests itself in this productive force has nothing to do with human art, with human science or with human ability; from it is excluded everything which causes itself to be expressed in the three pillars of the ‘Royal Art.’ So when some present these sexual symbols to humanity, they want to say: In this symbol, human nature expresses itself, not as man has made it, but as it has been given by the gods. This finds its expression in Abel, the hunter and herdsman, who offers the sacrificial animal, the sacrificial lamb, thereby offering what he himself has done nothing to produce, which came into existence independently of him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. 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Da ist ausgeschlossen, was sich in den drei Säulen der «Königlichen Kunst» zum Ausdrucke bringen läßt. Wenn daher gewisse Freimaurer die geschlechtlichen Symbole vor das Menschengeschlecht hinstellen, so wollen sie damit sagen: Darin drückt sich die menschliche Natur aus, nicht wie der Mensch sie gemacht hat, sondern so, wie sie ihm von den Göttern gegeben worden ist. 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