4. Auxiliary Terms, New Testament

GA 91/1904-08-20/p014 ·1904-08-20 · 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: «Grundlage sind Aufzeichnungen, die jeweils nach der Stunde angefertigt wurden.» (The basis is records written down after each lesson.). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 91). The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

An even more magnificent example of being on the mountain is the transfiguration. It is said that the disciples came into a kind of special state, of heightened consciousness. 'A cloud overshadowed them.' This is the suggestion of devachanic clairvoyance, where the past and future disappear so that they see the three of them side by side. Jesus reveals to them the secret meaning of his basic saying: The Way is what is first revealed to man. It is also called 'Elias' – 'Elias', who shows the way. 'Moses' is also called 'truth' in the secret teaching. It is Moses insofar as he received the commandments; he sets the goal. Christ is the life-awakening example: life. The great religious founders – Zoroaster, Buddha, Hermes – gave teachings. What Christ taught was not the new thing that mattered, but that he lived it, that is what matters. – You are not to entrust it to anyone until the Christ comes to life in his own soul.

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