The Dionysian Course II
GA 277a/1912-09-17/p003
·1912-09-17
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The speaker of this passage is not asserted. This passage speaks ABOUT Rudolf Steiner in the third person, so it is most likely a report, minutes, or an editorial summary rather than his own words. Verbatim, but confirm the speaker before attributing anything here to him.
Record: listeners' notes. This text is a newspaper's or a listener's report of the lecture, not a transcript. The wording is the reporter's: do not quote it as Steiner's own words. Evidence: «The text is based on Lory Maier-Smits' notes for GA 277a '1965', supplemented in part by descriptions from her essays (the note to the Dionysian course, GA 277a of 16 September 1912)». The unit's own header line in the edition served.
The very next afternoon, we were allowed to come out to Bottmingen again. On this day, Rudolf Steiner spoke exclusively about consonants as a reaction to external influences, in contrast to the inner weaving and revealing nature of vowels. He began that afternoon by describing a certain external world:
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