15. On the use of the Etheric and Astral Bodies of Important Personalities. The Atlantean Mysteries
GA 246/1908-12-28/p012
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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.
12. When the present moon had detached itself from the earth, it was again possible for the souls on the various planets of the solar system to return to earth. This is why the most diverse types of human races were embodied in the beginning of the Atlantean race. There were Mercury-, Mars-, Jupiter-, Venus-, Saturn-, Vulcan-men and so on embodied on earth; men who had thus developed their etheric bodies on quite different planets.
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