8. Evolution And Involution
GA 91/1904-08-30/p003
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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: «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.
You have to acquire a few terms to understand how self-knowledge becomes world-knowledge. First, a simple concept. Let us consider a lily seed and then the whole lily. The power of the whole lily is inside the seed. If we sink the seed into the earth, the power inside it is able to group earth, water, air in such a way that the lily becomes. The material comes from the environment, but the organizing force from the lily.
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