Lecture V
GA 94/1906-07-02/p004
·1906-07-02
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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.
In humans, we do not speak of species, but of individuality. It is not the species that is preserved through emergence and decay, but individuality, the very essence of the human being. This appears in an ever-new personality. The respective personality is only the expression of eternal individuality. Reincarnation has not always prevailed on earth, and it will not continue forever into the future, but has a certain duration.
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