Lecture III

GA 94/1906-06-30/p007 ·1906-06-30 · 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: «Zusammenfassungen und Notizen von Vorträgen u. Vortragsreihen» (Summaries and notes of lectures and lecture cycles). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

Human beings are undergoing transformation. Think of your childhood years! How many ideas and concepts came to you, how much did you absorb! And how your ideas and concepts changed between the ages of ten and twenty! Temperament undergoes a much weaker transformation. A violent child will remain violent even in old age. Temperament is physically imprinted on the human being. The choleric, the sanguine, the melancholic, and the phlegmatic are different in their facial expressions, posture, and gait. However, the main thing is not to acquire concepts, but above all, the human being must strive to be able to change something in his temperament. Such training was taught in the secret schools. The entire direction of one's life was changed in the secret schools. What mattered was a change of will.

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