42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II
GA 246/1911-06-06/p017
·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.
We will see in the course of these lectures that what surrounds us in our first childhood and then enters into the human being, later still stands in a very strange relationship to our body and our whole outer human being. All that man can bring forth in ideals, in artistic things, but also all that he can bring forth in natural healing powers in his own body, does not come from the ordinary intellect, but from the deeper forces that work in the first years on our constitution, on the imprinting of the larynx; for these are the same forces that are still in us later, for example, when we say: External forces can no longer help us now; our own body must bring forth the deeper healing forces that lie dormant down in the depths of our organization.
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