4. The Beings of the Astral World
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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: «Aufzeichnungen von neunzehn Vorträgen und vier privaten Lehrstunden» (Records of nineteen lectures and four private teaching hours). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
Consider that the higher-evolved one could have a rich harvest in the spiritual world. But he is free to return to earth after a short time and help those who have fallen behind in their spiritual development. Thus he can renounce the spiritual stay in the Devachan and wait until a master instructs him a new embodiment. We meet these figures among the so-called disembodied ones.
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