LXIV. On Clairvoyance

GA 90a/1904-10-30/p008 ·1904-10-30 · 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.

This is a world that, if it could be seen through, would be filled with the facts of the so-called astral world. Just as the physical world is filled with the facts of the sensual world, here one experiences the spiritual facts. But over there we experience feelings, passions, desires, cravings, instincts as facts. We experience them only as they exist as mental processes, not as they otherwise are in our personal form, refracted through our earthly life. It is simply a different world that the human being experiences there and from which he only brings pieces over into the ordinary waking consciousness of the day. No one should ever characterize the experiences in the so-called astral realm by what he brings over from the content of his dreams into his waking consciousness. This is just as rich, indeed much richer, than the world of the senses, and in terms of the contrasts it offers, it cannot be compared to what goes on in our world of the senses. The manifoldness of what appears good, bright, radiant, and, on the other hand, of the terrible, repulsive, and gruesome phenomena, cannot be compared to what our sensory world offers.

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