81. On the Formation of Destiny
GA 246/1923-04-12/p023
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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.
People will be portrayed who really create the conditions themselves. In future we will not have to imagine what a paradise might be like, but the poets will create figures. For example, poets will describe how a child comes into the world burdened with difficulties and how its powers are then released through skillful upbringing. This means looking at the power of Michael. Looking from utopias to one's own human powers is one way in which the power of Michael will work.
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