43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p022
·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.
Now, however, we must also look at other beings of the most diverse categories - besides those forefathers of mankind, the true supermen who had completed their humanity on the moon and had now become angels. We must also always look at those who have not completed their development on a planet. The beings that are called dhyanic beings in oriental mysticism and Angeloi in Christian esotericism completed and concluded their development on the old moon and were already one step higher than human beings when man began on earth.
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