43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

GA 246/1911-06-07/p036 ·1911-06-07 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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.

From there I ask you to gradually work your way up to another feeling that can give you direction in a certain respect when the question arises: Why is there evil, the bad, the imperfect, the morbid in the world? - Look at it from the point of view from which you have now seen the imperfect angelic beings. Everything that at any time represents an imperfection, a retardation, is nevertheless turned into something good in the course of development, and everything that is bad in our earthly development is nevertheless turned into something good on the whole. - We will see that there is no justification for evil and that no one can say: So I do evil, since it is turned to good after all. These things are not for the practice of life, but for the understanding of life. We ourselves must therefore not do evil.

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