42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II
GA 246/1911-06-06/p007
·1911-06-06
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English
HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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.
From such a moment, when you make such discoveries, something like the sensation in the human soul emanates: you feel as if you are sheltered by a good power that is working through you. You begin to gain more and more confidence in the fact that you are actually not alone in the world in the highest sense of the word and that what you understand, what you can do, is basically only a small part of what you have to accomplish in the world.
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