43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

GA 246/1911-06-07/p015 ·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.

And what I described to you yesterday for the childhood of man, what the child has as its own inner soul, what works in the child, we see working on a large scale in the world of humanity as the next world of the Hierarchies hovering over the whole evolution of humanity, as the next realm of the Angeloi or dhyanic beings, who stand one step higher than human beings and rise directly into the spiritual spheres, and who work into what they bring down and work into human culture in the same way as the childlike soul works on the construction of the human brain. Thus the Egyptians, who described their connection with a divine being, felt the openness of the soul of humanity to the hierarchies. Just as the child soul, up to the time we indicated yesterday, opens its aura to the hierarchies, so the whole of humanity opened its world - through the processes of humanity - to the hierarchies with which it was connected.

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