32. The Origin of Man
GA 68b/1907-10-31/p056
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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.
> As on the day when you were given to the world
> the sun stood in greeting of the planets
> You are as ever present and eternal
> [according to the law by which you came into being].
> You must be so, you cannot escape it,
> So said the Sibyls and the seers of old.
> And no power and no time dismember
> The molded form that lives and develops.
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