43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

GA 246/1911-06-07/p011 ·1911-06-07 · 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.

However, it is now good to get a somewhat more precise mental image of the inner nature of these beings. I don't know whether you are aware that one word has been much abused in recent times, the word “superhuman”; I don't know whether it has happened here in the north as it has in Germany. If one could truly speak of “superhumans”, then it was these beings who were already human beings during the lunar period, the planetary predecessor period of our earth, and who have now outgrown humanity, have grown so much that a human body is no longer suitable for their development and their constitution. They could therefore only appear to clairvoyant humans in an etheric body. Thus they appeared, descended and reigned on earth even in the post-Atlantean times. What were they themselves like? It is best to describe a little of the spiritual nature of these beings.

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