17. Reincarnation

GA 91/1905-08-14/p006 ·1905-08-14 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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.

What comes out in man in the devachan is the human manas. The racial spirit is one step higher; as the redeeming word, what comes out is what corresponds to manas in man, and that is Budhi, the Word. So that the whole fifth root race urges to reveal the word of Christ. Every time in the interstices between the five sub-races under consideration, the message of the coming Christ is proclaimed anew, and this proclamation is called the Gospel for the whole root race. And the blessed race spirit between the fifth sub-race of the fourth root race and the first of the fifth root race is called Matthew; the second, between the first and second sub-race: Mark; the third, between the second and third: Luke; and the fourth, between the third and fourth sub-race: John. That is why it always says "according to Matthew." That's why there are four Gospels, because there are four intermediate states, four Good News between the [five] sub-races.

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