XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels
GA 90a/1904-07-18/p038
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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.
Man too could become divine. He could reach the stage where the Word was revealed in his own breast; for him who could develop so far, there was a union of the Logos within his own breast with the Logos outside. He could ascend with the consciousness of the Logos. He could achieve the incarnation of the Logos Himself. That was a concept that the people of that time could understand. They could understand that through further development, the consciousness of the inner word could be obtained, the word through which all things are made, which was with God originally, which was the life of men as well as the life of the whole world - and this word became the light of man. It shone within man, and those who received it were called “children of God.
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