43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p037
·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.
This also answers the question: Why does the wise world government allow certain entities to remain behind so that they do not reach their goal? This happens precisely because it makes good sense in the near future - for example, that certain beings have remained behind on the moon. For when the peoples could not yet direct and guide themselves, there lived the teachers of the times and of individual men. And all the individual teachers of the nations - such as Kadmos, Cheops, Pelops, Theseus and so on - have in a certain respect an angelic being at the bottom of their souls.
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