81. On the Formation of Destiny
GA 246/1923-04-12/p008
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MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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.
Speech is a function of the astral body. However, this is not yet fully present in the child. We gradually develop the astral body between death and rebirth over the course of many, many years. We owe it to the astral body that we can develop our physical organization. As we learn to speak outwardly, the inner worldly astrality is dampened. The words we speak outwardly echo what is constantly speaking within us between death and rebirth.
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