76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p039
·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.
The Luciferic now arises when all that which otherwise remains unconscious in man [has a formative effect], those organs which express the will, generally the grasping, also all that which is expressed through the productive faculty, The opposite of Ahriman is therefore a borderline being, but only the form as a border: Lucifer is all sprouting, sprouting life. So if you think of the organs of production as transformed into the whole being, then you have something extraordinary. While Ahriman is basically terribly ugly, Lucifer is very beautiful in his forms, but he is that which resounds in human life as the power of [illegible word], as the power of sprouting and sprouting.
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