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  • Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture I: Research into the Life of the Spirit During the Middle Ages
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    • such vision had been common human experience, but they knew that in
    • a certain human being. You feel his presence gives you warmth. But
    • is like our human desire, like our impulse to strive after
    • how it is from the human being himself. Your Ego and your astral body
  • Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture II: Hidden Centres of the Mysteries in the Middle Ages
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    • the Christmas Foundation how the human being who was an Initiate or
    • and 28 or so, felt strongly and definitely that the humanity of the
    • he was made aware of all the single organs of his human organisation
    • human organism. Down there in the depths he felt the forces of the
    • mystery of each single word is to be sought in the whole human being,
    • human being, by diving down, as it were, from the speech organs into
    • the whole organism of the human being; and then in the Cosmos, for
    • the whole human organism is to be explained and understood out of the
    • attitude or gesture of the human being out into the Cosmos and say,
    • to come forth as it were, to rise out of the human being into the
  • Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture III: The Time of Transition
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    • to human thinking as the means of attaining knowledge.
    • the Middle Ages we can see this human thinking developing and
    • disembodied human being, purely spiritual, and yet at the same time
    • human.
    • human intellect and understanding will be so constituted that it will
    • able to speak to the human soul. Therefore remain in your mystic and
    • human speech. The others could and did. And this is the source of a
    • fraud. Indeed at no time of human evolution have charlatanism and the
    • human language. What the three give would be nothing but quite
    • among the very highest of human attributes. Such small groups of men
    • evolution of humanity towards freedom is such that the bond between
    • in a significant manner, it is still, shall we say, human in
    • spiritual world, who are not of human kind, who do not come to Earth
    • in human incarnation, accepted the sacrifice in order to fulfil
    • the human beings in the world. And when one descends deep down into
    • the Human, what God is and what Man is, was taught and made known to
  • Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture IV: The Relationship of Earthly Man to the Sun
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    • himself, the human being as such. They saw in Man a being who had
    • the etheric human form, which should itself establish its own
    • human form, but etheric still; then Man should draw to himself
    • Man — three different shades or gradations of the human, but
    • human kingdom. This was the picture of how Man stood in the world.
    • Human striving for true manhood must be abandoned, earthly man must
    • brought about by human sin. This knowledge was entrusted to the pupil
    • they take to be correct, is the outcome of their own human guilt. It
    • is really nothing else than the expression, the revelation of human
    • verily human experience? No, for were it human experience, it could
    • not flow out of inner human experience; rather it approaches man as
    • thoroughly human. When a man was taught to think logically, he had a
    • eighteenth century who speak of a downfall of all that is human, and
  • Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture V: Occult Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
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    • concerning Man, in respect especially of two human faculties. We may
    • being of the human organisation itself.
    • legs upwards, these four lines came to view in the human organism
    • human organism itself writes into space these two intersecting
    • Logic, it must be understood by the whole human being. And in point
    • then it passes over into the whole human being.
    • is today. Man had insight to perceive around the human being, a very
    • of the Moon. They saw in the form and shape of the human spinal
    • inpouring of the Moon-streams. In short, in what the human being
    • has to the Sun, we have a year of twelve months; and from the human
    • actual, miniature human being in front, here, in his head. And then
    • the pupil was made to observe that anatomically this miniature human
    • a kind of embryonic development of a miniature human being.
    • human being no longer divided as to Form and Content, but as one
  • Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture VI: The Tasks of the Michael Age
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    • the nineteenth century, and into which human beings will have to
    • humanity.
    • knowledge of the world. The Rosicrucians perceived in their own human
    • secrets of existence. For the humanity of olden times it really was
    • drawing forth their knowledge from the inner being of the human soul.
    • human heart to its depths, to inform the human heart and mind with
    • depended on many and varied things in the course of human evolution.
    • the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Then human beings began to
    • human life.
    • read? We — the humanity of today — read what we ourselves
    • former epochs of culture the humanity of today must read in the
    • already there. As human beings we must find our humanity again in the
    • what becomes of human deeds, receives it and carries it on and out
    • to arise out of human freedom. But when man does things out of
    • human earthly deed out into the Cosmos; so it becomes cosmic deed.
    • clear gesture of repulsion, for many things in which the human being
    • what man discovers in the human and animal and plant kingdoms
    • He also sternly rejects all separating elements, such as the human
    • entered the evolution of humanity. The Michael impulse is there. But
    • on the other hand, in the evolution of humanity there is much that
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  • Title: Lecture: Festivals and The Mysteries. The Adonis Mystery. The Easter Thought
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    • Easter is felt by large numbers of human beings as a festival
    • of the human soul, and on the other hand with cosmic mysteries and
    • humanity. These things will show us the immense values which mankind
    • We have here touched something of infinite significance in human
    • youth in man, of all that appears as beauty in the human being.
    • human beings saw in the image the actual and present God — the
    • With songs and acts of ritual representing the deepest human grief and
    • every human being who was about to reach initiation. For within the
    • Mysteries in those ancient times every human being who was to receive
    • have to undergo what the human being undergoes in the first three days
    • took place with chosen human beings in the Mysteries. Indeed the cult
    • experience that in the human being which is only half like the death
    • earthly realm — events enacted there upon the human being —
    • in the human soul, portrayed in the God Adonis. Even the God Adonis
    • Ether, approximately three days after the human being here upon Earth
    • human being shall turn his gaze to the death of Nature, in order to
    • Then in the further course of human evolution the great Event took
    • could be undergone in the entire human nature by Christ Jesus upon
    • thousands and thousands of years, human beings have been led through
    • What was thus experienced in the soul by a number of chosen human
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  • Title: Lecture: Moon-birth and Sun-birth. Necessity and Freedom. Stages of the Ancient
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    • The original idea of any sacred festival is to make the human being
    • centuries humanity of the civilised world has undergone an evolution
    • human body, we must realise on the other hand that the ancient
    • today. The inner change that takes place in the human being about the
    • thirtieth year of life remains for present day humanity to a large
    • were sharply separated in the course of human life. Hence in those
    • said of the great majority of human beings — and it was
    • second birth was the Sun-birth of the human being; the first was
    • the Sun that we, as human beings upon Earth, are able to make anything
    • long, a human being evolving by Necessity. These Sun forces —
    • maintains the human being when he passes through the gate of death
    • But humanity evolves. There came a time when the ancient knowledge of
    • which had been attainable only in the ancient Mysteries by human
    • taken place. It was the same transformation which all human beings had
    • — the Christ — descended into human evolution and took up
    • celebrated the Easter Festival in its full human form, by which I mean
    • over the human being, that he no longer considered himself a human
    • being at all, but said: “I must first become a human being.”
    • life no longer to consider himself a human being. But in those times
    • not consider himself a human being. He must say to himself: Certainly
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  • Title: Lecture: The Moon-secret Spring and Autumn mysteries
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    • movements of the wandering stars, nothing at all has remained in human
    • conditions of movement of the human body in complete unconsciousness
    • Now in the human being a single soul-and-spirit gathered together in
    • connected with the human being's inner life, just as the substances of
    • the Earth environment available for human nourishment are connected
    • and notably for humanity on Earth. For the Moon especially we must
    • human being from the Earth. Man was of course a very different being
    • Thus we may say: The Moon forces once rayed through the human being,
    • Sunlight can provide no forces enabling the human body to form his
    • cosmic relationships connected with the forming of the human etheric
    • Then we come to that which permeates the human being with the faculty
    • with Jupiter. And that which flows through the human being by way of
    • which the human being must be protected so that he may become a human
    • also learn to recognise how the human etheric body is formed when man
    • in which Mercury guides the movements of the human being. Nor did he
    • members. Thus he knew that for the human etheric body he cannot turn
    • It is for the astral body and especially for the human Ego that he
    • Initiation — imagine this inner human Easter experience of former
    • human experience, it was conceived that something or other, not man
    • that is left of a real process of the Mysteries which many human
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  • Title: Lecture: The Mysteries of Ephesus The Aristotelian Categories
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    • the ancient Mysteries. For a period of time human beings had to stand
    • number of human beings have passed through incarnations in which the
    • harvest is not yet, nevertheless it is there within the human being,
    • once again, human beings will indeed evolve in time what in their dim
    • life that has evolved in the course of human history. We shall learn
    • We know in the first place that human individuals themselves return to
    • human beings themselves are the most important factor in the
    • progressive evolution of all that has taken place in human history.
    • But the human beings of every age live in a particular environment.
    • mankind to carry from one age into another what human beings
    • understand how these ethereal forces are transmitted to the human
    • and minds be impressed by the part which human beings took in such a
    • Never did human hearts and minds partake so intimately in this descent
    • human being. He felt a premonition of the physical body which he would
    • At this stage the human being was still human being in the widest
    • the greatest things that pulsated through his human being.
    • And it is so with many things. Very much of what is now human wisdom
    • in the intervening time of human evolution between the two spiritual
    • Anthroposophy is there indeed; it lies at rest in human hearts, only
    • these human hearts must be able to open themselves in the true way.
  • Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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    • sensibilities of the human soul, but on the other, with cosmic
    • which humanity has endowed this Easter Festival in the course of its
    • conceptions of the most vital problems during the course of human
    • This points to something of enormous importance in human
    • spiritual representative of all that appears in the human being as
    • accompaniment of songs and of rites representing the deepest human
    • three days the immortal human soul. It arises in order to be born for
    • impression, the terrific shock inflicted on the human life by this
    • beauty, youth and the glory of the human soul, to the god Adonis. He
    • Now, during the course of human evolution a most significant
    • in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, it was possible for all the human
    • human being had evolved. Christ could no longer have been found in
    • Then, in the following centuries, the evolution of humanity took
    • longer has the power to reveal, through the inner force of the human
    • human soul knows that man passes physically through the portal of
    • the human soul arises in spiritual
    • resurrection of the human soul after three days. When the god —
    • instructed believer saw in this act the image of the human soul a few
    • human destiny was awakened within the spirit of men. At that time it
    • lay deep down in the substrata of the human soul. So up to our own
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  • Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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    • human being and the Moon forces but the inspiration they impart to
    • contain the potential human body, we must observe, on the other hand,
    • this development depended his creed. We human beings have been
    • when humanity began to develop in such a way that this second or
    • knowledge of human life.
    • the Moon-birth of the human being as the creation of man by the
    • enables us human beings upon Earth to make something of
    • sustained the human being after passing through the portal of death;
    • human being was sustained by the forces of Saturn, which at that time
    • But humanity changed as a result of evolution, and the time came
    • Sun, the Christ Himself, Who descended to enter human evolution and
    • human institution in those days, for it meant initiation. Primarily
    • the neophyte was that he could not think of himself as a human being
    • life he was not a human being. But that was the very first
    • Before descending into an earthly body I was indeed a human being; in
    • pre-earthly existence I was a human being of soul and spirit. In this
    • his eyes: the most he can do is to dissect the human corpse and then
    • way people go to work nowadays. They dissect the human being and cut
    • learn to know him, for that is not at all the human being. If we
    • would learn to know the human being we must be able to look back
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  • Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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    • planets, nothing has remained in human consciousness but the outer
    • movement in the human organism, remaining unaware that a
    • In the human being a unified psycho-spiritual element manifests
    • one with the Earth its influences upon human beings were exerted from
    • in human consciousness, the Moon with the forces of other planets,
    • contexts that are linked with the forming of the human etheric body.
    • other we find the whole sequence of the planets inscribed in human
    • Mercury experiences, the human capacity for speech becomes the
    • time we learn how the human etheric body is formed and constituted
    • Mercury directs the movements of the human being. Nor did he possess
    • intervene in the building of the human etheric body. The Sun appeared
    • light-being; and imagine this inner, human Easter experience of
    • with the clear knowledge that this could be a human experience,
    • Thus the confusion manifesting itself in the course of human
    • confused men's minds concerning an issue that at one period of human
    • fullness of human experience. They would pass from a sanctuary where
    • to the human spirit. Easter was a festival of admonition regarding
  • Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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    • in the entire evolution of humanity. Really everything of a spiritual
    • for humanity to be less closely linked, for a time, with the powerful
    • enlightenment and a spiritual life of humanity is really not
    • spiritual as they have evolved during the course of human history; if
    • over their experiences of earlier epochs into later ones. Human
    • factor in the progress of humanity is the carrying over of what has
    • the advancement of human freedom — in the sense that
    • human progress.
    • human being, in descending from the pre-earthly to the earthly
    • But it is important to ponder in our souls the human element as well,
    • he felt the complete human
    • human being: resonant ego, resonant astral body, in a shimmering
    • the human being was man in general, in the sense that the
    • as a human being; for through them he became aware of the relation
    • Now the human
    • Saturn may gather up all that rounds off the human being within and
    • way things work out: much human wisdom that in olden times had been
    • grave during this interlude in human evolution between the two
    • must make of Easter an experience for all humanity. And just as it
    • for these human hearts to open in the right way. That is what we must
  • Title: Easter Festival: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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    • the deepest feelings and sensibilities of the human soul, and
    • lectures to come. As for Easter's connection with the human
    • importance have occurred in the course of humanity's
    • in the development of humanity. Consider for a moment the
    • all that manifests itself in human beings as vigorous
    • grandeur of which humanity is capable.
    • the accompaniment of songs and rites portraying humanity's
    • nature. Human beings die as well. Each of us has his autumn.
    • stands for beauty, youth, and human grandeur. You see that he
    • else. You must remember that although human beings pass through
    • the immortal human soul awakens after three days. Three
    • encompassed procedures representing what human beings
    • by nature in the fall must also overtake human beings, overtake
    • youthfulness, and grandeur of the human soul. The god Adonis
    • so too is the human soul raised from the waters of the world,
    • namely, with the eternal essence of the human being. Humanity
    • that human beings die as well, but that in accordance with
    • humanity developed, the time came when a particular
    • undergo on Golgotha in the entirety of his human nature
    • performed. Over time human nature had changed. Evolution had
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  • Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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    • can say that the original purpose of festivals is to make human
    • times, he would not at all understand how human beings can live
    • counting of human embryonic life in ten lunar months. But older
    • world views were clearly aware that the human being, who exists
    • earth forces alone hold them together? The moment the human
    • these civilizations human beings still developed very
    • During the last two thousand years or more, human beings have
    • that takes place in human beings around the thirtieth year
    • sun forces' influence on the human being is entirely
    • While the moon forces determine the human being, permeate us
    • of the moon and the sun upon human life were sharply
    • born not once, but twice. As humanity began to develop in such
    • true understanding of human life.
    • sets human beings free. Consider what it does for us. Only
    • After death the human being is maintained by the Saturn
    • humanity changes, and the time came when the sun forces'
    • the most part, however, human beings lost this knowledge of the
    • sun being himself, the Christ, descended into human evolution
    • was as yet a human affair, for it was initiation.
    • believe that he was not yet really human, that this was a goal
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  • Title: Easter Festival: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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    • of the moon. Inasmuch as human beings participate in the cosmos
    • as a whole, this secret was related to human nature. It
    • the human organism while ignoring that it is animated by a
    • This spirit and soul, as they manifest themselves in the human
    • humanity's inner nature in the same way that earthly foodstuffs
    • everything the moon means to earth and to earthly humanity.
    • when it was still joined with the earth, it acted upon human
    • Humanity, of course, lived and developed completely differently
    • by which humanity was shaped and held fast from then on were
    • forces that once acted upon human beings from within the earth
    • one time the lunar forces radiated into the human being from
    • acquired a completely different role in the life of humanity
    • the human being has very definite experiences. When he has
    • death and a new birth, the human being prepares to come down to
    • that time, human beings who had completed the life between
    • split off, human beings have obtained the necessary forces from
    • they enter earthly existence, then, human beings must call upon
    • fashioning the outer side of the etheric body human beings need
    • cannot bestow the forces that enable human beings to shape
    • assure human beings of the forces they need to fashion their
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  • Title: Easter Festival: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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    • have seen how the Mysteries provided human beings with a
    • in humanity's development. Indeed, in ancient times
    • essentially all of humanity's spiritual life and
    • Human beings, however, were destined to achieve freedom, which
    • diminish and for a time leave human beings more or less
    • nor humanity's spiritual life would be possible.
    • developed throughout human history. Through the festivals we
    • even though human beings are the most fundamental link in the
    • A most important factor for the progress of humanity is
    • Mysteries, which in turn have their effect upon humanity as a
    • turn out to be useful for human freedom on another level. Such
    • forward in human evolution.
    • planets, and that these observations guide human beings in
    • available to human beings, we can look to the cosmos;
    • appreciate the interest human beings have taken in these
    • himself as a complete human being. Through the consonants, he
    • he felt himself living within the light. Now truly human, he
    • the cosmic human being.
    • from there. In this condition he was still a human being in
    • Indeed, he felt himself to be truly human when these verses
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  • Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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    • COUNTLESS numbers of human
    • related on one side to the profoundest feelings of the human
    • an intimate connection with humanity have been associated with
    • facts concerning our human evolution. This is nothing less than
    • in human evolution. But let us consider for a moment the
    • profoundest human grief and woe the divine image was on this
    • him also. When life draws to an end it is well that the human
    • impression, the tremendous forward push that human life
    • human soul. The god Adonis dies also. He passes into the water,
    • it, so the human soul is raised out of the water of the world;
    • the course of human evolution a most important thing now took
    • part of his human nature what the ancient Initiate of the
    • living content of human consciousness at that time gradually
    • in the same way as before, for the simple reason that human
    • extraordinary development in humanity. The penetration of
    • force of the human soul. Man has need of the support of Nature,
    • power contained in the festival of Adonis was lost. Humanity
    • god, men saw the death of all that was beautiful in humanity,
    • concerning the super-sensible resurrection of the human soul
    • saw in this image the representative of the human soul a few
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  • Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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    • inclined humanity to turn its attention more and more away from
    • its connection with cosmic forces and cosmic powers. Human
    • they cannot construct their human form. Those forces living in
    • contains the forces by which the human body is formed, we must
    • civilizations human development was very different from what it
    • humanity, inwardly, at about their thirtieth year, has also
    • humanity that lived eight or nine thousand years before the
    • from the Moon-forces. What does present-day humanity know of
    • referred, the difference between these two forces in human
    • part of humanity: a man was born not once but twice. For it was
    • came about in the course of human evolution that the second of
    • human evolution goes on. A time arrived when it was no longer
    • was lost to humanity; and while for a considerable time
    • the Christ himself, came down into human evolution and took up
    • entirely human concern, was actually carried out in the Ancient
    • that he knew nothing at all of human nature
    • therefore, as he had no self-consciousness of human nature, he
    • enterest now into the grotto of the human temple
    • He now learnt to know this grotto of the human
    • humanity
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  • Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 3: The Secret of the Moon
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    • loss of consciousness on the part of humanity, of the
    • if one were to study the human physical organism, completely
    • Moon-forces have had an entirely different task for humanity
    • the original teachers of humanity and withdrew along with the
    • the human etheric body were determined; and these Moon-forces
    • experience with regard to Mercury, we pass from the human
    • aptitude for sound-production to the human aptitude for
    • this way he also learns how the human etheric body is formed
    • movements of human beings. A man did not then attain to wisdom
    • formation of the human etheric body. In observing the sun he
    • proceed from the higher members of human nature, from the ego
    • planets, for the human etheric body. One looked to the sun for
    • the human astral body, and especially for the ego; but that for
    • human being, rises to the existence of a Light-being, and think
    • of this earlier inward human Easter experience as changed to a
    • entered into human evolution, and how this not only gave rise
    • totality of human experiences. Prom one Mystery
    • of the Festival of Human Spirituality; it was a festival for
    • for primitive humanity as summer approached. Thus the Easter
  • Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 4: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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    • humanity was ordained from the beginning to develop freedom.
    • evolved in the course of human history; when we endeavour to
    • the most important factors in the further development of human
    • agents in human progress is the power to carry over what was
    • be in the Mysteries themselves, where it works into humanity at
    • may be used in accordance with human freedom in such a way that
    • real human progress can be achieved through it.
    • it is most important that the human interest, which throughout
    • pupil now felt his whole human being in the
    • human being was still a universal being
    • greatest consequence to his humanity.
    • so has it been with many things. Much of the wisdom of humanity
    • human evolution between the two spiritual epochs, will again be
    • at that time humanity was blessed by a divine spiritual



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