74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p032
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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.
Well, this is also how we cover up the wisdom that we cannot bear; we cover up that immensely wide light of wisdom that constantly permeates our astral body by always awakening feelings and sensations about the positive things we experience, through which we are just passing. On the other hand, everything that is necessary to lead us past the overall current of the world, the wisdom current: We cover ourselves with that!
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