43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p038
·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.
There we see how mankind is indeed subject to a leadership, a guidance. Yes, we could almost point out how above man, who gradually develops from the childhood stage of culture, there are first such superhuman beings who had not reached their angelic stage on the moon and can incarnate in human bodies - and then such beings who can no longer incarnate in human beings, but can only have a revelatory effect.
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