42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II

GA 246/1911-06-06/p033 ·1911-06-06 · English High

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.

It is not good in spiritual science or theosophy, or in occultism in general, to define much, to speak much in terms. It is better to characterize and try to evoke a sensation of what is. That is why I tried today to evoke a sense of what is, what is in the first three years of our life, of every human life, and what emerges when we allow our lives to be illuminated by the light that radiates from the light of the cross on Golgotha. For then we get a feeling, a sense of how an impulse goes through human evolution, of which one can rightly say that the Pauline word “Not I, but the Christ in me!” must become truth. must become truth. Do we need to swear on some “positive” document? Do we need any external document to come to this Christ-power? No! You only need to know what man is in truth. Therefore, there is nothing “positively” Christian in this idea of Christ as presented by Theosophy.

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