43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p059
·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.
And then came the time when more and more opportunities arose to look into the spiritual world. The people who had a natural clairvoyance became more and more numerous, and they will continue to become more and more numerous. Around 1250 was the crisis when humanity was most isolated from the spiritual worlds, while it was then to ascend again, and today we are already on the way to the spiritual world again. At that time it became necessary to create a balance between initiation and the Hellscher principle. This was the special task of an impulse that entered into the guidance and direction of humanity as the year 1250 approached. At that time, a new kind of leadership had to begin, a new way of guiding people and creating a balance between initiation and clairvoyance.
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