10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World

GA 246/1908-01-12/p017 ·1908-01-12 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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.

The cross has a deep meaning and plays a major role in the Middle Ages. Probably [a pupil in the Middle Ages] who was given to the Rosicrucian for education. [In the form of a dialogue] I will tell you - which may have gone on for weeks and months - how the Rosicrucian communicated with the disciple: "Look at the plant; it sprouts the root, the stem, produces flower and fruit. Place yourself next to this plant. Now you must not compare the flower of the plant with the head of the human being, but what the root is for the plant, the head is for the human being. The plant turns its fruit organs upwards towards the sun; exactly the opposite is the case with man. In the animal they are horizontal because the animal is only halfway through its development. If we draw a line upwards for man's main energy, downwards for the plant and horizontally for the animal, the cross is formed by these lines.

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