12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p013
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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.
For this part of wisdom it is therefore incumbent on the thinker to accept it as revealed; and to use the technique of thought only to clarify it. What man can find by himself only moves in certain subordinate regions of reality. For these, the scholastic applies the activity of thinking to his own research. He penetrates to a certain limit where he encounters revealed wisdom. In this way, the contents of his own research and revelation come together to form an objectively unified monistic worldview. The fact that a kind of dualism, necessitated by human peculiarity, enters into the matter is only secondary. It is a dualism of knowledge, not one of the reasons for the world.
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