18. The Origin of Evil and the Evil in the Light of Spiritual Science
GA 69d/1914-03-29/p023
·1914-03-29
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English
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Author: Rudolf Steiner
Record: mixed sources. This volume draws on more than one kind of record (transcripts, notes, documents). Check the volume's own front matter before weighing a single passage. Evidence: «Im Anhang Notizen und Berichte von weiteren Vorträgen» (In the appendix, notes and reports of further lectures). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
Rudolf Steiner: I did not say that, it did not even occur to me! There is no cannibalism in the spiritual world, so nothing can be developed from cannibalism in the spiritual world. One can say, for example, that a philanthropic soul would carry out all kinds of good deeds with lion power: that would be something completely different; but one must not say that the lion's power of devouring becomes philanthropy.
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