LXIV. On Clairvoyance
GA 90a/1904-10-30/p003
·1904-10-30
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English
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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.
Every occultist knows the great dangers that lie in the frivolous popularization of occult truths and insights. On the other hand, however, it should also be taken into account that Theosophy, among other things, imposes the duty of spreading and advocating certain occult teachings that come only from occult research. When we do this, those who have familiarized themselves with such teachings feel the need to learn something about the methods by which such insights are actually gained. Theosophy speaks of the development of humanity and of the world, of races, rounds and so on, of planetary systems and other things. Those who hear these truths will, even if they believe that the intellect can grasp them, still feel the need to ask what the paths are by which such insights are attained.
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