43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p017
·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.
But when these men stood face to face - each one with such an ancestor of mankind - when they looked clairvoyantly, listened clairaudiently to what they saw or heard through this predecessor of mankind, it shone like the sun from their own eyes. And then what they could say had an overwhelming effect on their surroundings, so that everyone knew: Now it is not human life or human wisdom that is speaking, but now the gods, the Dhyanic beings, are speaking into human culture!
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