66. Samaritan Course Lecture II
GA 246/1914-08-14/p003
·1914-08-14
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English
MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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.
Faith and trust (in the victoriousness of the spirit) must be so great that we think something of how we are with our hearts and minds in such things (such as caring for the wounded and sick). With every injury, something happens that points to the future in perspective, so that something happens through divine-spiritual powers that later passes into consciousness. We direct our attitude towards something that later becomes conscious. So it is indeed significant how we find our way into the helping role with our whole soul and frame of mind; and perhaps we can express this through nothing more than by imbuing our whole frame of mind with the right trust and faith in the power and strength of the spirit and by adhering to the words “Not I, but the Christ in me”.
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