43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p028
·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 especially in the older times such beings went around among men who belonged to the lowest category of the Luciferic beings who were incarnated. In addition to the angelic beings who worked on human culture through human beings, such Luciferic beings also incarnated and founded this or that culture here or there. And when legends tell us that one or the other great person lived here or there who founded a great culture, such an entity is not dismissed by saying: "There is a Luciferic entity incarnated, it must be something evil! In fact, an infinite number of blessings come into human culture through these entities.
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