Lecture VIII
GA 94/1906-07-05/p011
·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.
Before incarnating, humans have a preview of their coming earthly life. If this life is difficult, they may experience a severe shock and, under certain circumstances, become idiots because their etheric body resists entering the physical body, causing its center of energy to shift outside the brain.
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