74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p033
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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.
But even after death we must first gradually become accustomed to the sight of that which pulsates through the whole world as wisdom from the higher hierarchies and passes through our astral body. We have to get used to it first! And this happens during our return to life by turning the outer into the inner. By seeing the effects, the outer effects of our thoughts and deeds, we become accustomed to the outer world. In this way we get used to seeing not only what lies in our own wisdom, but what lies in the wisdom of the world. You see: There is a deep meaning to every single series of facts that we go through, even between death and a new birth.
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