Wisdom, Beauty, Strength, Sign, Grip and Word

GA 265a/1911-12-16_02/p012 ·1911-12-16 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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 Erinnerungsaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmenden» (From participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

for us the expression of spiritual beings who reveal their language with it and want to make themselves understood to us. Only heartfelt, true devotion can reveal true beauty to us. Because you all know that in the spiritual (astral) world, devils can show themselves in the form of angels under the mask of beauty. But you know that this is only possible if our soul is not permeated by that purity which is coupled with heartfelt piety. In the lower Devachan, those entities can be found that send their beauty down to us in truly beautiful images and forms.

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