74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life

GA 246/1916-03-03/p027 ·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.

On the other hand, it is quite correct to say that what is there, what is to be experienced here in physical life apart from us, is now to be experienced inwardly. You see, the weaving of the etheric thought-tableau into the world ether can be described by saying: The inner becomes an outer. In this time that now follows, when one lives back, the outer becomes an inner; for until now it was outside what the other felt. Everything that the other person felt now becomes inner - that is what you experience as your own experience in this living back. Everything is experienced in this way. You really experience it like this! And you are really spared nothing, nothing. You relive everything, everything that you have done or thought or felt that has had an effect in the world, you experience it again by now feeling inside the other person.

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