74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p041
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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.
I tried to give you a mental image of the feeling you can have when you become conscious: That which you are wearing above your neck is truly the work of worlds of gods, just as truly as a machine is not only the work of the one who makes it, but the own work of the one who first had to think so that it can be invented. But on the physical plan of the earth a wretched machine is brought about - out of the whole universe this head is brought about, through which we carry the whole world within us. We really do carry the whole world within us! Not only the whole world, but the creation of the gods within us! Oh, if only people could feel that!
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