43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p004
·1911-06-07
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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.
You will find a curious parallel to that which announces itself in individual human life if you consider what was said to the ancient Greeks by the teachers and leaders of ancient Egypt about the guidance and direction of Egyptian spiritual life. It is said - and rightly so - that when the Egyptians were asked by whom they had been guided and directed since ancient times, they answered the Greeks: In ancient, gray times, the gods ruled and taught among us, and only then did men come as leaders. - They called the first leader on the physical plane “Menes” to the Greeks, who was recognized as a human-like leader. This means that the Egyptian people in their leaders referred to the fact that the gods themselves - as the Greek records say - had previously guided and led the Egyptian people.
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