74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p016
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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.
Do not underestimate the realization of just such a sensation, for it is given to us with the falling away of the physical body. Because we no longer have the physical body, what we otherwise feel in the physical body is transformed into sensation: You are not in the world for nothing. You are a building block in it. It depends on you. You have to be there.
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