42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II
GA 246/1911-06-06/p026
·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.
I ask you now - and each of you answer the question for yourselves: If at some time in the future, when the time on earth has not yet expired, a human organism is placed in the world and in some year it would be caused by certain world powers that the ego would be removed as it has developed, and that ego, which works in the first three years of childhood, would later work in such a way that it would be connected with the spiritual worlds, with the hierarchies, would thus work in the same way as the divine ego itself: How long could such a person live? Three years! Because then something would have to happen that would destroy the world karma of this body.
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