24. The Beatitudes
GA 246/1910-02-13/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.
Now they find the bond to the divine-spiritual kingdom through the ego. The human nature has nine members: physical body, etheric body, astral body, mind soul, sensory soul, consciousness soul (I), manas, buddhi, atma. When man had deep suffering, all he had to do was to be removed from the world, to be magnetized by the cosmos, and he was imbued with spiritual-divine powers in his etheric body. This palliative is now over; now man must find consolation in himself through the Christ-impulse. Now it is said:
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