38. The Ideals of Humanity and the Ideals of the Initiates
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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: «Da keine professionellen Stenogramme vorliegen, handelt es sich oftmals um notizenhaft festgehaltene Zusammenfassungen oder Berichte.» (Since no professional shorthand transcripts exist, these are often summaries or reports kept in the form of notes.). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 68b). The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
This is a real life teaching, and it aims to develop the devotional view of life. We can give young people nothing better than this power to worship, this devotion, this reverence. We owe an infinite debt to that which we are able to revere uncritically. This is an inner experience that one must have to appreciate its significance. Through this, one comes to what is called the impersonal.
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