10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World
GA 246/1908-01-12/p015
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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.
That which is just a name for many people today really exists: tribal soul, Folk-souls. I would like to remind you here of the Cherusci people that appear in ancient Germanic history. It arises, reaches a height, descends again and disappears in history, just as a person disappears from this plan after his life passes away with death. In the people we have something that is a real Folk-souls; and each individual Cheruscan - outwardly completely distinct - was nevertheless embedded in the general astral Cheruscan soul. The Cheruscan soul existed; it is a real astral being.
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