XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels
GA 90a/1904-07-18/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.
> So the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; but also his coat. But the robe was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down. So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the scripture might be fulfilled which says, “They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my robe.” [John 19:24].
> Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. [John 19:25]
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