43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

GA 246/1911-06-07/p018 ·1911-06-07 · English High

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.

The ancient cultures began from this sounding forth of what the gods knew, what the gods could do. Only gradually, in the post-Atlantean period, did the gate close, so to speak, to the divine-spiritual world, which during the Atlantean period was still completely open to the human soul. And in the various countries, among the various peoples, it was felt how man became more and more dependent on himself - just like the child. First the divine-spiritual world enters through the unconscious soul of the child, which creates in the child; then comes the moment when man learns to say “I” to himself, up to which he then remembers himself in later life; but before that lies a time which one does not normally remember in everyday life. There lies that of which we have said that the wisest can still learn from the soul of the child.

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