About Beings Who Influence the Human Being

GA 98/about_the_beings_that_influence_human_beings/p014 ·1908-02-24 · 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: «Hörernotizen von achtzehn Vorträgen» (Listeners' notes of eighteen lectures). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

On Venus beings dwell whose thoughtful speech points to a high logic, their countenance reflects a high morality—but even there are some who have predatory desires, and also others who are in all kinds of intermediate stages between gentle and wild. When the Earth’s population will have accepted Christianity and a unified bond of brotherhood spans the Earth in ever-widening circles, then it will draw nearer to the Venus beings. These exert an influence on our nutritional juices. Food is not only a chemical production, but with it a spiritual power flows through the throat. It reflects the actions of the mysterious beings and powers, how they influence the plants; each plant only grows under special conditions, so that in accordance with the ground and soil specific types of people, communities and tribes can form itself.

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