My Kingdom Is Not of This World

GA 265a/1914-03-30/p008 ·1914-03-30 · 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.

4000 BC: People still knew about the spiritual world. 3000 BC: The heyday of Egyptian culture. 2000 BC: Abraham's calling. 1000 BC: The time of David, immediately followed by the building of the Temple of Solomon. 994-1049 AD: Odilo, the Abbot of Cluny. Zealotry. The zeal of a faith that clings to dogmas. A Napoleon of faith who conquers Europe. Violence and domination associated with this faith. A personality who accomplishes all this. She represents the victory of Lucifer, who conquers the power of faith of people to have them for himself. Basel public: I am the way, the truth and the life; we follow him, he will lead us.

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