Lecture III

GA 94/1906-06-30/p009 ·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.

Everything that a person has absorbed from their earthly life is incorporated internally, ensouled, spiritualized. In this way, a person creates for their next incarnation, right down to their body, the expression of what they have worked for. In the East, there is a saying: What you think today, you will be tomorrow. — Thus, we work in each incarnation for the next. Next time, I will show what human beings experience in Devachan. This Devachan life is not a dream state; human beings do not sleep through the spiritual world. Their consciousness is much higher and more alive than here. Everything appears in a brighter light. His friends have not disappeared from him there; it is only a different kind of spiritual unity, one that is much more intimate. Devachan is a much more real state than that of earthly life.

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