43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p031
·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.
I will paint what we are told from the Akashic Chronicle. For example, a person approached a hut that arched over a family in the old way and gave it protection and shelter, and observed the hut in the way it arched over the family. He expressed the protective arching of the hut with a consonant; and that there were souls in bodies - which he could feel - he expressed with a vowel. Then the word “protection” came into being; I have protection, protection over human bodies. - The word was formed from vowels [and consonants] because the human soul felt it that way.
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