Lecture VI
GA 94/1906-07-03/p005
·1906-07-03
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English
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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.
The purpose of reliving one's past life in every detail is to truly understand one's own actions by experiencing their effects on oneself. For now, with every action, the human being experiences the state of mind of the person against whom the action was directed. They experience the pain and joy they have caused other people from within. There is nothing that one has done to others that does not become one's own experience in Kamaloka. The saying applies here: What you sow, you will reap.
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