VIII. Cosmology and Planets
GA 90a/1903-12-22/p018
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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.
And now Atma as unity, as upper triad with the Tetraktys. This presents itself as a common sphere for the upper principles, which are grouped around below as the four exemplary moons that Jupiter has. They are therefore not yet moons in our sense, but they are the principle of the moon before the moon is there. Our moon is a precipitated part. The four moons of Jupiter are driving, which can only be absorbed into Jupiter. Our principles apply only to our development. The deva development is already such that we cannot say that it has the same principles. Kama is already so different that we could not use it. The manasic principle of the devas is quite different, has quite different characteristics, although it is allied with us and we are able to understand it.
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