42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II
GA 246/1911-06-06/p029
·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.
What did this I teach, which is connected with the spiritual hierarchies, which entered the human body of Jesus of Nazareth at that time, that his entry is symbolically represented under the signature of the descending spirit in the form of the dove with the words: “This is my beloved Son, today I have begotten him!” - for that was the original meaning of the words - that is, the true Son of Man sinks into a human body, who otherwise only appears as a shadowy twilight image in the first three years of childhood?
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