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This person may merely have read a request to have some refuse removed. But in reality the letter says something of tremendous importance. Now you may say: ‘But the man did not read that.’ That is not true. The surface self-awareness did not take it up, but the secret of such a code is that the right words remain and impress themselves on the ether body, on the subconscious mind, and the person concerned will have taken them in after all.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Spiritual Insight Offering Greatest Liberation II: The Mission of the Spiritual Science Movement","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-10-08","location":null,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2001","book_title":"Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA096/English/CMP2001/19061008p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p011"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p011","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Es kann nämlich sein, daß man in einem solchen Brief beispielsweise jedes dritte Wort vom Anfang oder jedes vierte Wort vom Schluß weglassen muß. Dann bleiben gewisse Worte übrig, die einen sehr bedeutungsvollen Sinn darstellen, etwas, was auf den ganzen Willen dessen einwirkt, an den der Brief gerichtet ist. Dieser hat vielleicht nur gelesen, daß er etwas Unrat wegschaffen lassen sollte. In Wahrheit aber steht in dem Briefe etwas äußerst Wichtiges. Nun können Sie sagen: Das hat der Mann aber doch nicht gelesen. - Das ist aber nicht richtig. 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