44. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity IV

GA 246/1911-06-08/p034 ·1911-06-08 · 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.

What makes a person ill but the fact that the forces of the earth are not working in proper harmony! What works inharmoniously from the earth can always be brought back into harmony by the forces of the cosmos. But everything in an appropriate way! People think that all sorts of superstitions and stupid things happen with the so-called miracles of healing the sick. But they only believe this because they can't read. I would just like to point out one passage where it says: “When the sun had set, they brought the sick to him and he healed them.” What does that mean? The evangelist makes the grandiose point that this healing was connected with the whole constellation of stars, that such a constellation of the world was brought about precisely at that point in the world, which could only have been brought about at that point in the world. For it is not written there for fun: “When the sun had set ...”, but it is written there because the corresponding healing powers could only develop after sunset, because they work differently for a being that expands into the whole cosmos. And the body of Jesus of Nazareth was the instrument for the forces working from all sides of the cosmos. This is what spiritual wisdom tells us. This is what Rosicrucian wisdom teaches us and will teach us more and more.

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