Youth's Search in Nature

GA 217a/1924-06-17/p006 ·1924-06-17 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
Record: unknown. How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.

During our whole earthly life, therefore, we carry death within ourselves, in that we have to contain unliving, dead substance. We must have dead substance. It was known in ancient times that it is precisely this death element through which the living can gain revelations of the spiritual. From ancient Roman times there still resounds a phrase like, In sale sit sapienta (Wisdom rests in the salt.).

Read this passage in another edition
DEoriginalENEnglish
Raw JSON: /v1/steiner/en/ga/217a/1924-06-17/p006.json
Cite: GA 217a/1924-06-17/p006 · edition English