Planetary Evolution XII

GA 89/1904-11-10/p025 ·1904-11-10 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
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: «Niederschriften und Vorträge aus den Jahren 1903 – 1906» (Written texts and lectures from the years 1903 to 1906). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 89). The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

In the same way we have to accept the creation of the world as an act done by the Logos in freedom. Progress consist in knowing that when it comes to the universe we do not ask as to the why, and that the question as to the ground or reason is not justifiable. All of those who understood this never spoke of a ground or reason. Jakob Boehme spoke of a ‘source and origin’ of the world.[^3] To progress to insight into the world-creative power, we can only go to the point where we know that our own evolution must have been the goal, for that is where the creator must once have stood. The creator must have everything we possess, but in reverse. Atman is the lowest point within us. The creator has atman as numerous points in his periphery. When the solar system was in its inception, the world-creative Logos had the qualities we have found to be the goal of our evolution—atman, budhi, karana sharira or manas, kama, linga sharira, prana, sthula sharira—all as part of its essential nature.

Read this passage in another edition
DEoriginalENEnglish
Raw JSON: /v1/steiner/en/ga/89/1904-11-10/p025.json
Cite: GA 89/1904-11-10/p025 · edition English