10. Manas as Light and Love

GA 91/1904-09-03/p013 ·1904-09-03 · English High

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.

Before there were single beings, directed by Manas; now single beings with freedom of choice arose. Now something new must arise, which harmonizes the beings. The drive cannot now come from Manas, for it has lost its security. A new element appears. This is the element of love. Love has not been necessary before, because before the security of instinct has worked. From the lowest to the highest, what is called love has now arisen. Even the most subordinate form, sexual love, appeared only now, up to the forms of the most spiritual love. As in an atmosphere our whole earthly macrocosm was wrapped up in love at that time. This love in the organic was connected with the development of the warm blood. It is the physical vehicle for love.

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