43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

GA 246/1911-06-07/p054 ·1911-06-07 · English High

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.

With this I have, so to speak, developed for you in ideas the way how the universe is brought forward through the evolution of certain higher beings, and have shown you how, however, on certain levels beings always have to be held back so that the development can go forward in the right way. With this we have been able to form certain concepts and ideas about “development” in general, about the way in which the contrast of advancing and holding back is produced by beings who reach their stage of development and those who do not - and how development is made possible by this. In this way one can understand the whole universe in its development. But one must also understand what is revealed to the clairvoyant eye in the spiritual worlds. By opening the spiritual eye, the spiritual ear to the spiritual world through some kind of exercises, one has only achieved that one sees what is there, that one can perceive the entities and knows: There are spiritual entities of the astral plan or the devachanic plan. But it takes something else to recognize what kind of beings these entities are.

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