IV. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology I

GA 90b/1905-01-30/p017 ·1905-01-30 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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.

These two globes are each preceded by another – one descending, one ascending. These are the Arupa globes. They are formless. The people in those days were such that in this whole world, which is even finer than the Rupa world, nothing lived except individual sounds, with a very specific timbre. These individual tones, which did not yet harmonize, which did not yet form into melodies, but lived as individual tones, were very substantial. Among these beings were individual basic essences of plants and animals, and above all, every human being, as he is today, was already present as a tone. Each person at that time had a different tone. This makes the human being a being that is different from all others. This tone, with a very specific coloration, is the human being again when he arrives at the globe, which we will call the archetypal globe. There the human being is again a tone, but from this tone everything that he has experienced resounds. It is a tone [of great abundance] from which the whole rich experience of the human being resounds. It is difficult to visualize this, but as I said, it can be imagined in such a way that this [on the Rupa globe] is a poor tone, while [on the archetypal globe] this is a tone that speaks of everything that a person has gone through at the various stages of development.

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