70. About The War - What Happens Behind The Appearance Of Maya. Appearance of the Christ in the Ethereal

GA 246/1914-11-02/p014 ·1914-11-02 · 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.

First let us answer one question: Where does the spirit, who first has to prepare, find the spiritual terrain, as it were, for the next decades; where does he find a large part of the souls he needs? It will find a large part of the souls it needs in the souls of the Russian people. Those souls of Russian men who have the peculiarity of being taken up into the bosom of their Angelos when they pass through the gate of death, who have first passed through a stage of independence, a stage of being sheltered, of being guarded by a spiritual power, by a being like the Angelos; so that when we look up into the spiritual world, we see a great part of Russian souls gathering around the great fighter who has to bring about the decision in the next time. And because this is the case, the great astral battle of the Russian souls is directed against the French souls who ascend from French bodies into the spiritual world.

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