76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p036
·1918-06-30
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English
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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.
You see, Ahriman is connected with all the downward forces that must be in man instead of the upward forces. Ahriman is actually that in which only the perishing is found, that which brings us humans to death, that which makes us die. But with these forces of death, which ultimately also cause us to die, with these forces we actually think, with these forces we are cunning, mischievous, sly, but also wise with an understanding sense. This is connected with the downward development of man. But it is also connected with the forms in the human head. The head is the deadest [illegible words] thing in man. Now think of the idea of metamorphosis: it is based on a being that is not decisive for the form of the whole human being, but is decisive, as otherwise only the head is formed in the human being.
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