10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World
GA 246/1908-01-12/p006
·1908-01-12
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Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
So the pentagram is nothing other than an organ of the etheric body. It signifies the human being because it is inscribed in his etheric body. However, the lines of this pentagram follow the movements of the human body and are therefore not always straight.
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