10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World
GA 246/1908-01-12/p014
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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.
In death, these forms emerge precisely. It is still difficult for people today to recognize these exemplary etheric forms. In the Atlantean period, when man's etheric body had not yet taken possession of him, had not yet crawled into him, i.e. when there was not yet a distinct individuality, there was a resemblance to the four animal forms. At that time there were four group souls: Man, bull, lion, eagle. These are not arbitrarily invented symbols. Today, occultists can distinguish between these four groups: Man-man, bull-man, lion-man, eagle-man. This is how these images are traced back to their reality.
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