LXIV. On Clairvoyance
GA 90a/1904-10-30/p027
·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.
From direct observation, one learns to recognize how the various forms of the universe transform and metamorphose into one another. It becomes clear how a thought form is formed out of mental substance, then encloses astral substance and plastically dominates the astral substance. But it is also learned how the beings of higher planes, from the mental plane through the astral plane, move down to the physical world. The entire sum of possible transformations of form in the universe lies before the initiate. He can answer the question of what forms a plant has undergone in earlier, long-gone epochs. The various forms of transformation that belong to our planetary system are revealed at this level of knowledge. This is called the conscious experience of form development in esotericism.
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