Sentence 1: Steiner held that the spiritual world can be researched in the right circumstances through direct experience , by persons practicing rigorous forms of ethical and cognitive self-discipline .
Sentence 2: Steiner believed that , in the right circumstances , the spiritual world can be researched through direct experience by practicing ethical and cognitive forms of strict self-discipline .
Question: Do Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 express the same meaning? Yes or No?