33. On Reading, Envy and Mendacity
GA 246/1910-12-02/p030
·1910-12-02
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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.
Not to say in theory: Yes, I forgive you. - But rather direct the feeling towards the weak child every day, for example, and then we will see that the child will thrive, that the pale skin will become healthy skin and so on. We help to change and promote its physical condition. - Only when we put theosophy into practice in this way does it actually become what it should be. For example, if someone makes a certain statement on the train, we should think about whether this does not create a duty for us. Directing the powers of the soul towards the spiritual source - that is the task.
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