56. Life Between Death and a New Birth

GA 246/1913-02-27/p023 ·1913-02-27 · 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.

Kant instinctively made the statement: two things filled him with deep reverence, the moral law within him and the starry sky above him. - He made this statement instinctively because he did not know that these two things were one, because man carries within him, hidden in the depths of his soul, what he has experienced in the starry sphere between death and rebirth in the spheres of the moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, in the starry spheres. I have not mentioned the star spheres as they correspond to astronomy. What I have mentioned is what man lives in between death and a new birth. And when the seer sees the human souls, he sees that they are still in the lunar sphere for a time after death. This sphere extends to the extent that we get when we draw a circle that includes the earth and the moon.

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