VIII. Cosmology and Planets
GA 90a/1903-12-22/p012
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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: «Frühe Vortragsreihen und Einzelvorträge für Mitglieder in Berlin 1903–1904 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.» (Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1903-1904, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90a); the description calls them "Hörermitschriften", and the served text carries the note-taker's gap marker "[Lücke in der Mitschrift]". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
Everything else is the reincarnation of what was there before. Our entire planetary chain was nothing more than the re-embodiment of states that had existed before. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus represent the three higher cosmic principles, which simply reincarnated, first in the elemental, then in the pranic and so on, so that in Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus we have to recognize the three principles Atma, Budhi, Manas - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus.
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