IV. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology I
GA 90b/1905-01-30/p028
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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.
Mercury is further advanced in its development than our Earth. It has already reached the state that people will have reached when we have astral plasticity. The beings of Mercury can endure the physical state. Earth people will undergo this state on an astral plastic globe. But Mercury gives us an idea of what man will become when he is on a plastic globe. For them, plasticity is compatible with the physical state. [So there is a relationship]. But the planets themselves have their chains, and only through their stages of evolution can it appear as if the development on Earth has something to do with them. The beings that live on Mercury and Mars are not human-like. They undergo completely different evolutions. People can only be physical on the physical Earth, while the Martians can be physical with the qualities of the astral human, and the Mercury beings are plastic on the physical globe, which people can only be on the plastic globe.
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