LXIV. On Clairvoyance
GA 90a/1904-10-30/p005
·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.
The experiences on which the theosophical teachings are based are made in completely different states of consciousness than those that are characteristic of the ordinary person. Two such different states of consciousness come into particular consideration. We will start with what the ordinary person experiences. This person has their everyday, waking daytime consciousness – through which they are able to perceive the things around them and to educate themselves about cause and effect and the other laws of this physical world through their mind, through their reason, in short, through their intellectuality.
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