Lecture I
GA 90a/1904-10-10/p012
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LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
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.
An Apocalyptist pierces the veils which separate man from the regions in which he can behold those earlier stages of evolution. Other organs must develop in man before he can really see what has formerly happened on the earth. The stages of evolution through which man has passed and which have become invisible to him, of which he is no longer conscious, must again become living reality to him. Thus in an Apocalyptist the etheric body must have been kindled to life, he must begin actually to see; his whole being must become an “eye.” Therefore the Apocalyptist must be able not only to transfer himself back into the stages of Eagle, of Lion, of Bull, but he must do so as a Seer. And at the third stage of Initiation the Chela actually acquires this power of vision.
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