XLVII. An Overview of Our Development
GA 90a/1904-07-26/p005
·1904-07-26
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English
HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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.
Above all, this is the question of the so-called Trinity. It is emphasized over and over again that the idea of the Trinity can be found in all religions and that it is one of the oldest religious teachings. Above all, it is emphasized that, regardless of whether we go to India, Persia or Egypt, to the Germans, Germanic peoples or Celts, we find three aspects of the deity everywhere, endowed with roughly the same characteristics. You can find the Indian trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva again and again.
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