74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p047
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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.
When man has now arrived between death and a new birth at what in the last Mystery Play was called the midnight hour of existence, thus approximately in the middle between death and a new birth, when man has arrived there, then in the normal course of the continued work that is done in the spiritual world, so that man can appear again in the way just described, the time is also there when he already works down to earth again. What is produced in the spiritual world is already working down to earth again.
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