74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p045
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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.
Pulled together from the whole world and united with what happens purely materially in the mother, that which is called the incarnation of the human being comes into being. What is in there, these convolutions of the brain, they are folded together from the whole universe.
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