43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p047
·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.
The fact that so much materialistic interpretation of things comes into our time stems from the fact that the leftover spirits of the Egyptian-Chaldean era play into our culture. However, something of the Egyptian genius had to enter our culture; for the Egyptians had a strong materialism in their spirituality, which found expression, for example, in embalming the physical bodies of the deceased - that is, they attached great importance to the preservation of the body. This has come down to us from Egyptian times in a correspondingly different form.
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