43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p032
·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.
This was the case all over the world. It is not a dream that there was a human “original language”, but such an original language did exist. And in a certain sense, the initiates of all peoples still understand this primordial language. Yes, there are certain sounds in all languages that are nothing more than remnants of this original human language.
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