XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels
GA 90a/1904-07-18/p044
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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 know that devotion is particularly lacking in our time. Those who speak for this current know that they have learned it themselves in their search for truth: to be humble, to be devoted. This is an experience that not one, but many have gone through. They have made science their own. They have sought truth here and there, in natural science, in philosophy, in the science of history. They know the methods that are followed here and there. [...]
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