42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II
GA 246/1911-06-06/p016
·1911-06-06
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English
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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.
Then you really feel: When you entered the physical world at birth, you had not yet completely escaped the world that you left when you entered physical existence, [you] were still connected to it. Then that which one has as a piece of spirituality enters our physical form and follows us. But it is often the case that we feel: What is placed within us is not just a higher self that is to be gradually formed, but that is something that is already there and often causes us to outgrow ourselves.
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