83. Human Understanding and Hatred

GA 246/1923-11-07/p008 ·1923-11-07 · English 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.

The new limbs come from the physical earth, and when these begin to move, the head parts can also be used for speaking and singing. If a person can sing, he has acquired this through his previous incarnation. In the second half, between death and rebirth, the human being is given back what he has brought up in terms of misunderstanding and hatred of human beings. The beings of the second and third hierarchy give it back to man. They had only taken it from him so that he would be protected in the highest sphere. After he has been awakened by cherubim, seraphim and thrones, he can take his karma back upon himself. As a head being, he first forms as an image of the world sphere. Only then do his chest and limb systems form, which are attached and formed from his hatred and lack of understanding of humanity. Just as the limbs have expressed themselves in the heart (?), so in the next incarnation they form the visual mound, pineal gland and so on. What develops from the limbs gives rise to the deeper parts of the head organism. In this way, a biography can be written for each person of their cosmic experiences after death.

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