24. The Beatitudes
GA 246/1910-02-13/p005
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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.
Around the animal is also that which spreads out around the human being. The fact that both have an astral body, [that both] are built in a very specific way, enables man and animal not only to be touched by what is externally in their surroundings, but also to feel pleasure and pain, sympathy and antipathy. This is how man approaches the animal, everything, and feels what the astral body makes us feel.
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