24. The Beatitudes
GA 246/1910-02-13/p011
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MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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.
The idea that we must develop the powers of our soul in such a way that they are not merely sufficient for the day and its needs, but that they open up the secrets of the invisible world to us, cannot arise in the animal. This intuition is due to the truth that man has a face that looks out into the universe.
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