74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p011
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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.
It is already the case with the spiritual world that one must modify the mental images, the views one has from the sense world, and that one must change them many times, because the world behind the sense world is not merely a shadowy imprint of the sense world, but in many respects is fundamentally different from this sense world. And only gradually, by looking at the facts of the spiritual world from different points of view, is it possible to gain real mental images of what is present in the spiritual world. Thus, again from a certain point of view, the riddle of death may also be considered as a riddle of life in today's contemplation.
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