72. The Victory of Life over Death

GA 246/1915-03-28/p008 ·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.

What he is, how he lives for the spirit lands, that should be placed before the soul here at the beginning of the week, which is to symbolize the resurrection of life for us in a festive way. What kind of spirit lands the soul of our dear friend Christian Morgenstern is, let it enter our hearts this week, that our hearts may celebrate a grateful feast in contemplation of him who for years was in the midst of our spiritual-scientific current for its fertilization, for its enlivenment, and of whom we may know that his entry into spirit lands has become meaningful, deeply effective precisely through that which he had developed in his soul in recent years. I would just like to present the image, the image of what the soul embodied in Christian Morgenstern is for Geisterlande - and therefore also for us. May this image then live in your heart through the coming Easter week, and may what Christian Morgenstern was celebrate resurrection in your heart.

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