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is one that takes place entirely in the spiritual region . And to this region no other of our ORDINARY powers of intelligence has entrance, save that of THINKING . He who is unwilling to trust to the power of thinking cannot, in fact, enlighten himself regarding higher spiritual facts . For him whose spiritual eye is opened the above train of thoughts acts with exactly the same force as does an event that takes place before his physical eyes . He who ascribes to a so-called "proof," constructed according to the methods of natural science, greater power to convince than the above observations concerning the significance of biography, may be in the ordinary sense of the word a great scientist, but from the paths of true SPIRITUAL investigation he is very far distant . One of the gravest prejudices consists in trying to explain the spiritual qualities of a man by inheritance from father, mother, or other ancestors . He who contracts the prejudice, for example, that Goethe inherited what constitutes his essential being from father or mother will at first be hardly approachable with arguments, for there lies