76. About the Photographs of the Construction

GA 246/1918-06-30/p013 ·1918-06-30 · English High

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.

If you translate this into the spiritual, you get the inside of the building. Now, working on this as an illustration, the following brief sketch resulted. First of all, if I look at the floor plan, the building is made up of two partial circles. The other is an extension. These two partial circles stand on a concrete substructure. This entire building is now oriented from west to east. The two main rooms adjoin each other here. This room is intended for holding meetings for lectures and the like, [here] the architecture is adapted to the purpose. The lectern would be placed here for the large meetings that will hold the audience in this room. Here the two rooms are separated by a curtain. The mystery performances will take place in this room. This room has its gate here, so you go from the west to the east.

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