74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life

GA 246/1916-03-03/p022 ·1916-03-03 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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.

Now, after death, our thoughts remain for a few days approximately as they were in our memory; but not only those which we remember as thoughts - also those which we have otherwise forgotten appear in these days. And they do not appear as they are remembered here, that one is later, the other earlier - but they appear in a panorama of life, in a tableau, all at the same time. For a few days, we have our whole life around us at the same time. Yes, we do. Our whole life is seen for a few days, really seen for a few days. But then, when it has been looked at for a few days, the divine-spiritual beings take away what we call our etheric body and weave it into the whole etheric universe. At first it is woven in in a small way; then it becomes correspondingly larger and from then on forms a part of the whole etheric realm of the world.

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