LXIV. On Clairvoyance
GA 90a/1904-10-30/p019
·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.
That which is hidden from the consciousness of the day in this way, and which confronts man at this stage, is called the Guardian of the Threshold. He guards the threshold because he must not allow the ordinary man to see what is behind it. However, it loses much of its horror if the person has the designated character traits or has acquired them to a certain degree. By the end of the Atlantean era, people had ceased to develop these moral powers sufficiently. Hence the peculiar conditions arose that are known from the description of Atlantis.
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