15. On the use of the Etheric and Astral Bodies of Important Personalities. The Atlantean Mysteries
GA 246/1908-12-28/p007
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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.
5. But when the influence of the moon became very strong and brought matter closer and closer to solidification, only the strongest souls were able to embody themselves and conquer matter. The others had to choose other areas of activity. Many therefore went over to the other celestial bodies that belonged to the solar system - to Vulcan, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Mercury - and went through a stage of their development there.
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