42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II
GA 246/1911-06-06/p003
·1911-06-06
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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.
In the next lectures I would like to speak to you about a subject which is important to man both in relation to ordinary, everyday life, important also for those exceptional cases of life where fate seems to impose very special tests on us, important also for everything that we call the “higher life”, the development of the human soul into the spiritual worlds. For everything - the regular and the abnormal life of the day and the higher life into the spiritual worlds - ultimately points us towards something that we can call in the most comprehensive sense: the spiritual guidance of man and also of the whole of humanity.
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