74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p042
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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.
And when that which has been described between birth and death has been stripped away in the passing through from death to birth in threefold speed, then it approaches man that the preparation for a next earthly existence is already begun, so that his next earthly existence can take on the form that he needs after all that he has formed in the etheric world picture, which is interwoven in the effects that he has put out into the world. These causes are now, so to speak, built upon.
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