10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World
GA 246/1908-01-12/p033
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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.
Thus we learn to understand the world itself as a parable. When we first learn to regard our corporeality as a parable of the higher human being, then we have reached the highest level with regard to the contemplation of the highest; when man is able to regard his transience important enough, but it is not overly important to him, when it is the parable of the imperishable.
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