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By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.

By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.

Approximate author period: c. 1893 AD · industrial

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Rudolf Steiner
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Approximate author period: c. 1893 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Rudolf Steiner, based on documented lifetime 1861 to 1925. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78484 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78484 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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