24. The Beatitudes
GA 246/1910-02-13/p032
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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 times do not stand still, with the end of the nineteenth century (1899) the Kali Yuga (the Dark Ages) has come to an end. We are thus approaching an age, indeed we are already in it, in which the old clairvoyant abilities are developing again, above all the abilities of seeing the etheric. And since for the initiates the Christ was visible in his etheric body in the area of the earth's atmosphere [only after the event of Golgotha], people who have the newly awakened higher spiritual abilities will experience the event of Damascus and see the Christ coming again in spirit - not in the flesh (around the year 1930-40).
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