LXIV. On Clairvoyance
GA 90a/1904-10-30/p021
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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.
On the third level, however, he lives where there is no longer any conscious experience for the ordinary person. He experiences the same as the ordinary person in the outer sense world, only on a higher level. He then experiences the laws of the world of causes. There is no longer any difference between the experiences in the so-called unconscious state of sleep and the conscious state of the day. This is the continuity of consciousness, which is gradually and very gradually attained. But relatively soon the separation of the soul will have progressed so far that it can live not only in thoughts but also in sensations. Then he can form concepts from these, as things actually look in reality.
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