Symbols reflecting original wisdom
GA 89/1905-03-27/p016
·1905-03-27
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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: listeners' notes. This text is a newspaper's or a listener's report of the lecture, not a transcript. The wording is the reporter's: do not quote it as Steiner's own words. Evidence: «Symbole als Ausdruck der Urweisheit: Notizen von Marie von Sivers, Walter Vegelahn». The printed volume's account of its texts (Hinweise, Textunterlagen), counted as unit evidence by the operator's ruling of 2026-11-03.
He was then given the two-edged sword, which was the I. It could act from the outside to the inside and from the inside to the outside. It had power over the elements of earth, water and fire which were subservient to it. When kama was bound up with fire, water with vital energy, matter with spirit, the human being developed his armour, he received his two-edged sword.
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