12. Philosophy and Theosophy

GA 246/1908-08-17/p038 ·1908-08-17 · 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.

As I say this, you will feel that it is a great blessing when efforts emerge within the Theosophical Society that are aimed in the very best (epistemological) sense at an elaboration of epistemological principles. And if we have a worker of extraordinary importance in this field here in Stuttgart (Doctor Unger), then this is to be regarded as a beneficial current within our movement. For this movement in its deepest parts will not achieve its validity in the world through those who only want to hear the facts of the higher world, but through those who have the patience to penetrate into a thought technique that creates a real basis for truly solid work, that creates a skeleton for work in the higher world.

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