31. Life after Death
GA 246/1910-10-09/p011
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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.
What is the animal form? In animals we see the spiritual above and the physical below. Something appears from above, and something is merely reflected in the physical world. The angelic world is reflected in the animal world. Now you will say: It's terrible that we should see the animals as a reflection of the angels! No, it is not terrible; for what is happening is that the mirror has been corrupted by the Luciferian influence, so that here in the physical world we see the animal forms instead of the noble forms of the angels.
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