42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II
GA 246/1911-06-06/p028
·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.
There you have the whole deep connection between that which is the leader in man, which shines into our childhood as if in twilight, which always works, works beneath the surface of our consciousness as that which is our best, and between that which once entered into the whole evolution of mankind, so that it could remain in a human shell for three years.
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