43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p008
·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.
When the earth state of our planet began and man appeared on earth, these beings could not appear in an outer human form. For the outer human fleshly body could only appear later; it is essentially an earthly product, but is only suitable for the beings who are now human beings.
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