15. On the use of the Etheric and Astral Bodies of Important Personalities. The Atlantean Mysteries
GA 246/1908-12-28/p015
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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.
16. This can be described as a betrayal committed against the secrets of the initiates. The initiates gradually became less and less fit to be initiates. The students of the esoteric schools were made of worse and worse material and were not afraid to exploit the secrets entrusted to them for their personal advantage and benefit.
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