43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p003
·1911-06-07
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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.
Yesterday we tried to get a sense of that which projects into human life from higher worlds and which we can address in such a way that we can say: we feel in it something like a guidance of both the individual human being and of humanity as a whole. And in order to obtain a mental image, a sense of this guidance, we had to turn our spiritual gaze to that epoch of individual human life in which the human being as such is not yet fully conscious, but works all the more intensively on his outer physical human being: We had, in order to discover the highest in man, to turn our gaze towards that which works there before we have received our present consciousness for the time between birth and death; into the first age of childhood we had to look.
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