72. The Victory of Life over Death

GA 246/1915-03-28/p006 ·1915-03-28 · 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.

Christian Morgenstern is for us the victory of life over death, Christian Morgenstern is for us the representative of that essence that should stand before us especially in this festive season: that all that is dead is resurrected and comes to life. And it is of this living life of the soul, which was embodied in Christian Morgenstern, that a few words are spoken today by way of introduction.

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