10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World
GA 246/1908-01-12/p031
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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.
Today this small selection may teach us: Our world of the senses around us is in a certain way rigid; but, when we come up into the higher worlds, there everything becomes mobile, capable of transformation - and there man needs something to express it, and so the symbol points us to the truth of the spiritual world. Every being in the world, whether it is stone or plant or sun, is a parable. What we see coming into being and passing away, what is spread out around us in the cosmos, is a parable for the eternal. Goethe's saying is true (conclusion of the second part [of Faust II]):
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