43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p019
·1911-06-07
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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 then the individual is left to himself, the ego-consciousness emerges, and everything now comes together in such a way that one can remember it. Thus the time also came in the life of the peoples when they began to feel more closed off from the divine inspiration of the original fathers. Just as the child is closed off from the aura that surrounds the child's head in the first years, so too in the life of the peoples the divine forefathers receded more and more, and people became more and more dependent on their own research and their own knowledge. History also calls this the “coming of man” into the leadership of humanity. “Menes” was the name given to the one who inaugurated the first “human” culture, and at the same time it indicates that this also gave man the opportunity to err.
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