IV. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology I
GA 90b/1905-01-30/p010
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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 1905–1906 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.» (Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1905-1906, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90b); 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.
Our Earth has reached our present state after having passed through a very different state, and it will change again into a different state when it has gone through this present state. We can express this by saying that the Earth is undergoing transformations. The first Theosophists illustrated these three metamorphoses - the state of our earth that preceded the present one, the present state and the one that follows - by drawing three spheres, which were also called globes.
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