LXV. On the Apocalypse V
GA 90a/1904-11-01/p057
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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.
I would just like to note that this implies that the mother of Jesus is hinting at something very special. She is the spiritual substance from which he creates his work. The old Judaism, which was to become Christianity, referred to Jesus, when he had become a Christian, as his mother. This mission of his people calls him, calls him first when he is to turn the old water into wine. Then he says: Woman, my hour has not yet come. The Jewish people have been handed over to the son of the Jewish people with the words: Behold, this is your mother. It was this John who then also wrote the Gospel and the Apocalypse.
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