43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p020
·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.
From now on, he was dependent on the not entirely reliable tool of his brain. The fact that man could fall into error is indicated by the fact that at the time when man was abandoned by the gods, the labyrinth was created, which, with reference to human thinking and the convolutions of the brain, is an analogy for how man could from now on lose himself with his thinking in the convolutions of thought.
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