Elemental Beings and European Cultural Development

GA 158/1914-11-14/p037 ·1914-11-14 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.

In the case of a personality such as Herman Grimm's, something very peculiar takes effect. One has an after-effect with Herman Grimm from what his immediate ancestors were. His immediate ancestors, his father and his uncle, were the collectors of the Children's and House Tales, and they heard these Children's and House Tales told. They simply listened when they were told and then wrote them down. But you don't do something like that unless you have a specially tuned astral body that is predisposed to it. Such things must be deeply rooted in the whole course of events.

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