Man was gradually to emerge altogether from the spiritual world and to engage in pure sense-observation, in intellectual, logical thinking.
By degrees he was to make his way to non-clairvoyant cognition, because HE MUST PASS THROUGH THIS STAGE in order to regain clairvoyant knowledge in the future.
Without possessing clairvoyant faculties we can reach this height only by ENNOBLING POWERS that are at the disposal of ordinary humanity.
These stages had to be attained by man in the course of Earth evolution.
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By degrees he was to make his way to non-clairvoyant cognition, because HE MUST PASS THROUGH THIS STAGE in order to regain clairvoyant knowledge in the future.