43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p006
·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.
We know that the earth, before it became “earth”, went through a different planetary state, which we call the “lunar state” and which we have described in many lectures. At that time man was not yet man in the present sense; but there were other beings on the old moon who did not have the present human form, who were differently shaped, but who were at that stage of development which man has now reached on earth.
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