VIII. Cosmology and Planets
GA 90a/1903-12-22/p017
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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.
[Stage] 3, 4, 6 and 7 combine and form only one. This gives us one. At the time when it was decided to form the chain of worlds, there were still nine. Saturn represents this plan. It represents the Kama-Manas, which stands in the middle. So we have four principles in front and four behind. Therefore Saturn has eight moons. That makes nine in total, and these nine together represent the preliminary plan for the creation of the world, while the ring signifies the process of becoming unified into a single entity. These unified principles are the archetypal human being. The ring is therefore also called “spiritus mundi”. Thus Saturn would be the preliminary sketch of the planetary system. It looks like our solar system set apart. It is the archetype of our entire solar system. Within the upper triad, only one remains as Atma. This is Uranus.
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