The Spiritual Development of Man
GA 265a/1912-05-09/p056
·1912-05-09
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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.
If human beings were only exposed to these forces, they would soon live in a world completely doomed to death. Six hundred years before Christ, it was not yet determined even in the spiritual world whether the Christ would really come to earth.
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