Lecture VI

GA 94/1906-07-03/p008 ·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.

All the experiences we have had become forces in the continental region of Devachan. In the atmosphere of Devachan, human beings experience what once arose in them as feelings and emotions. After they have recognized the emotional effects of their own deeds, these emotional experiences flow into them and become abilities. All the experiences of an earthly life reappear in later earthly lives as abilities and talents. In this process of transforming experiences into abilities, human beings experience a feeling of unreserved bliss. It is like the feeling of the brooding hen, translated into the spiritual realm, a feeling of warmth that awakens new life, which flows through human beings there.

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