43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p040
·1911-06-07
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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.
Such beings then incarnated into Hermes or Thoth, for example, and walked among the Egyptians as humans. Now you must realize that man in ancient Egypt achieved something; that is, your own souls in Egyptian times achieved something. But every individuality achieves something in an epoch.
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