The Importance of Human Thought in the Present Day

GA 265a/1914-06-01/p012 ·1914-06-01 · 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 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.

During the day the feelings and volitions of the gods cannot flow to earth, and so divine wisdom has given man sleep, because only when freed from the body or in a state of clairvoyance can the soul be an instrument for the gods. For during the day an Ahriman draws in the air we breathe, but at night the gods can draw in us.

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