43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

GA 246/1911-06-07/p034 ·1911-06-07 · English High

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.

The diversity of language, the fact that languages became different in the most diverse regions of the earth, that a differentiation occurred in the languages, stems from the teaching of such teachers in whom a Luciferian entity was incarnated. Such incarnated, for example, among the Egyptians, among the Persian people and so on. Depending on whether this or that - retarded - angelic being was incarnated there, it was able to instruct people in this or that language. So the ability to speak a particular language among all peoples can be traced back to the presence of such great enlighteners who were angelic beings who had remained behind and were far higher than the people in their immediate surroundings.

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