42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II

GA 246/1911-06-06/p031 ·1911-06-06 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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 do we recognize from the laws of nature when we now remember what the Christ then also said? I want to be such an ideal for you men that there in the spirit you fulfill what you otherwise fulfill in the physical. - What do we fulfill in the physical in the first three years of our lives? We learn to walk, to walk physically out of the spirit; that is, man shows himself the way out of the spirit. We learn to speak, that is, to shape the truth out of the spirit - or in other words: man develops the essence of truth out of the sound in the first three years of his life. And the life that a person lives on earth as an ego-being receives its vital organ through what is formed in the first three years of childhood. This is how we learn to walk physically with our legs. We learn the “way”, learn the ‘truth’ and learn to live the “life” in the spirit. There could be no better interpretation of the words “Unless you become like little children, you cannot enter the kingdoms of heaven”. No more profound words could characterize the I-entity of Christ - the same I that spent three years in life as: “I am the way, the truth and the life!”

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