Lecture VIII
GA 94/1906-07-05/p006
·1906-07-05
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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.
It is much more difficult to work on the etheric body than on the astral body, because it is much more difficult to penetrate. This impenetrability is partly the work of the human being himself, insofar as it stems from previous deeds, but partly also the work of other, higher beings who were active in the formation of the etheric body. The more the human being works into the etheric body, the more he becomes what is called a religious and wise person.
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