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Knowledge of the higher worlds rudolf steiner written 1904 1905. This is one of a number of books relating to steiner purchased on behalf of a postgraduate student. The training of thoughts and feelings, pursued in the way described in the chapters on preparation, enlightenment, and initiation, introduces into the soul and spirit the same organic symmetry with which nature has constructed the physical body. Knowledge of the higher worlds and its attainment, by rudolf steiner, 1947, full text etext at.
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