XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels
GA 90a/1904-07-18/p036
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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.
We see that by the third century a sect had formed that was a staunch opponent of the Gospel of John. They called themselves Alogoi; they wanted nothing to do with it. These Alogoi already existed in the second century, and the Gospel of John had many opponents at that time. How did it come about that the understanding of the Gospel of John was lost? We can only understand this if we realize how man in earlier times related to his gods. Brahma and the other gods were nothing other than that which lives in the world and with the world; they were precisely that which manifests itself in every single thing and, above all, in every single human being. Man may be a weak creature, but man is developing higher and higher, and the God who is in the word is being expressed more and more.
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