Lecture XIII
GA 94/1906-07-10/p008
·1906-07-10
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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.
The thoughts and images, the devoted meditation of which brings about Christian initiation, are contained in the Gospel of John. Those who experience the first fourteen verses of the Gospel of John in their soul over many months experience them as having a magical effect. Finally, the disciple experiences something very strange: everything in the Gospel of John appears as astral images. For it is written to be meditated upon.
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