Lecture VI

GA 94/1906-07-03/p007 ·1906-07-03 · 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.

This retrograde experience causes all the evil attached to the human personality to be eliminated. When this process is complete, the human being leaves behind the astral body as the third corpse and continues to live with the ego and causal body. The discarded astral body is actually unnecessary for the further states of the human being. Let us take another look at the effects of Kamaloka life on the soul. If someone has caused suffering to another, they experience it themselves in Kamaloka: they experience the effect it had on the other person. By going through this, they are warned for the future. These experiences that the human being has in Kamaloka are lasting and are deeply engraved on the soul. But they leave their astral corpse behind. These astral corpses are always visible to clairvoyants on the astral plane. They dissolve only slowly. Later, the soul enters the devachanic world. There, the person is able to process everything they have absorbed in Kamaloka, everything they have engraved upon themselves.

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