43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p025
·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.
These entities are now extremely easy to misjudge; for man can easily ask himself two questions. One is to ask lightly: Why did the divine beings, the rulers of good, allow such beings to remain behind and thus allow the Luciferic principle to enter humanity? One should believe that the good gods direct everything for the good. This is an obvious question.
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