(Continued from here)
 

NEW, BASIC UNTRUTHFUL STORY FOUR, ALREADY THE FOLLOWING DAY - 2 OCTOBER 2001 ...

The new story, after he had asserted the easily documented obvious untruth on 1 October 2001, still clinging to a variant of his first story (the original article), that

"The published version of the [first] lecture doesn't contradict my description of it"

He also now starts to abandon his story from 1 May, that there exists a special lecture, implicitly not published in the lecture series, but that -- according to Mr. Staudenmaier -- still somehow constitutes the basis for the published lecture series, and that -- according to Mr. Staudenmaier -- was held by Rudolf Steiner in 1910 in Oslo.

Neither in May 2001, nor in October 2001, or at any later time, has he however been able to find and document the existence of it anywhere as such as he describes it, except in his own fantasy.

(Later, in September 2005, he in a mail even completely denies, that he has invoked the lecture he asserts he is describing as something else than the one published in the lecture series, the first one, or ... the sixth one?, see below and later.)

Only one day later, 2 october 2001, the following day, he has changed his mind about this. He then tells that he has found it, though not as the first lecture in the published lecture series, nor as a separate lecture, implicitly not published in the lecture series, but as another lecture in the published lecture series (and thereby implicitly not as the first lecture in the published lecture series).

But that lecture is not the actual lecture he has referred to in his introduction to his article either, but only a "revised" version of the lecture he persists in having in his fantasy, described in the introduction to his article.

He now asserts that what he describes in the introduction to his article is what Steiner actually expresses in that first, sorry sixth, lecture, but still without any documentation of where it has been in the mean time, except in his fantasy.

Mr. Staudenmaier 2 October 2001 to Tarjei Straume:

"The lecture is included, in revised form, at the site you point to above. It's chapter six in the book version, based on Steiner's lecture of June 12, 1910. In the English edition, that's roughly pages 90-110 or so." [bold added by the undersigned, S.N.]

The "actual" lecture that Mr. Staudenmaier continues to hold on to in his mind, is the fantasy lecture that continues to only exists in his own mind, and for which neither he nor anyone else at any time has shown that it exists or ever has existed anywhere else.

He here once again tries to force his (behind the surface horrified, or as he himself maybe would say, "justifiedly biased") fantasy on reality, in terms of the actually published, in this case sixth lecture in the series, by writing as if the lecture Steiner held that day - the sixth in the lecture series - not is the one actually published in the lecture series, but implicitly the fantasy lecture that Mr. Staudenmaier has produced in his own mind, based on loose reading of journals.

Not only the published first lecture in the series is a whitewash of the lecture Mr Staudenmaier has had in his mind about it. Also the published sixth lecture of the lecture series somehow is a whitewash by Steiner himself of what he actually said in the lecture, and that Mr. Staudenmaier is completely sure that he truthfully describes in the introduction to his article.

After all discussions and search in different lecture lists, and different published editions of the published lecture series for a number of years by Mr. Staudenmaier himself and others, it seems clear that he still is (or at least was up to September 2005) convinced that he and he alone is the one who knows (based on among other things loose reading of journals) what Steiner actually said in the first (sorry sixth) lecture of the series on ... 12 June 1910. (The first lecture in the series was held on 7 June, 2001.)

In his mind, it seems, everybody else is wrong about what Steiner actually told his audience during that special lecture (the first one in the series according to his introduction to his article in 2000, and according to his comments up to 1 October 2001, then, in the comment on 2 October 2001 to switch to the sixth lecture in the series, held on 12 June, 1910, in Oslo).

The actually published lecture from that day is just a fake, a "revised" version of the lecture actually held by Steiner that day, seemingly produced to fool everyone else about what Mr. Staudenmaier and he alone knows what Steiner said that day, based on a loose reading of journals, that he has told is the source of what he writes in the introduction.

While Mr. Staudenmaier often seems very clear sighted on different issues and expresses his thoughts very well, somewhere one may also have the impression that there is a distinctive cleft between smaller or larger parts of Mr. Staudenmaier's mind and the reality most other people live in, and take to be probably real, a cleft that mostly is difficult to discover, as he formulates both his truths and his untruths and illusions equally well.

For Mr. Staudenmaier's position on these flippant stories four years later, in 2005, see later ...
 
 

AND UNTRUTHFUL STORY FIVE ...

He also writes (2 October 2001) about lecture six:

"If you disagree that Steiner here designates the "Aryans" as superior to the other "root races" he describes, then by all means present an argument to that effect. It's childish to pretend that the lecture doesn't exist if all you mean is that you read its content differently."

In the introduction to his article, Mr. Staudenmaier asserts that he is describing an actually published source by Steiner (the first lecture in a repeatedly published lecture series by Steiner, ... though not really, as the first published lecture in the lecture series, according to Mr. Staudenmaier is not the actual lecture held by Steiner as the first in the series.

The lecture he asserts that he describes in the introduction is something else, of unclear origin, and only is found as "described" by Mr. Staudenmaier in his own -- rich, but behind the surface clearly horrified -- fantasy. From 2 October 2001, Mr. Staudenmaier has changed his mind and tells that the lecture referred to in his introduction not is the first, but the sixth lecture in the series, but that the published sixth lecture in the series -- also -- is a fake of what Steiner actually said in the actual lecture that day).

The anthropological terms "main races of mankind" 

Mr. Staudenmaier's apparently deep personal feelings of horror about the propagation of a view of some "Aryan supremacy" is fully understandable and justified. But it is not applicable, either to anthroposophy or to the lecture series by Steiner in 1910, which Staudenmaier (untruthfully) tries to use as the introduction to his article "Anthroposophy and Ecofascism", and which he has continued to argue untruthfully about for years when his initial untruthfulness about it is pointed out to him.

Nor is a concept of "Aryan supremacy" applicable to any significant part of the  anthroposophical movement, either before or during the Nazi period, especially not in Norway, and especially not after the Nazi period in Europe, as he untruthfully tries to imply in his article.

Reading the actual sixth lecture in the series reveals that it does not describe what is termed in theosophy (but not in anthroposophy) an "Aryan root race", as untruthfully stated by Mr. Staudenmaier.

For more on the theosophical concept of "root races", that not refers to biologically defined groups of humans, but to the stages of humanity during the development of our present solar system from beginning to end, see here.

Nor does lecture six describe the cultural epochs in general. It also does not describe or the present cultural epoch in the view of Steiner, as one might (incorrectly) deduce this idea from the (by Mr. Staudenmaier made up) apparent theosophical term "germanic-nordic sub-race", as he writes in his introduction. But that term does not appear in the lecture either as Mr. Staudenmaier now appears to indicate, with his "Story four" (2 October), about which "lecture" by Steiner he actually refers to in the introduction.

Instead the sixth lecture contains a description of the nature of the anthropological "five races of mankind" in Steiner's view at the time when they began far in the past. (And "Aryans" not is not one of these "five main races" according to Blumenbach, the father of physical anthropology, who described them as Ethiopians [Africans], Malayans, Mongols, Caucasians, and Americans [red Indians]). Moreover, in Steiner's view, these races began to fade as a reality with the end of the ice ages, though Steiner at one time described them as developing up to the Middle Ages.

As a complication, the English translator of these lectures in the version published in 1970 (a source which Mr. Staudenmaier had not read when writing about it in 2000) also erred in making the translation, and had not understood the difference between the theosophical concept of seven "root races", which refers to the stages of humanity during the development of our present solar system from beginning to end, and the anthropological concept of "five main races" of mankind, which dominated discussions of race from the late 1700s to the middle of the 20th century. It is this latter concept of the "five main races" that is the actual theme of lecture six in the series.

In addition, a reprint in 2005 of the 1970 edition of the lecture series has been made without reviewing and correcting the errors in the 1970 translation.

This clear mistranslation by the translator has then been misused up to at least 2005 by Mr. Staudenmaier, who is clearly intelligent enough to understand the difference, as a continued defense of his repeatedly documented untruthful argumentation about the lecture series.
 

"Story four" and "story five" as part of Mr. Staudenmaier's last line of defense for his untruthfulness, for the time being (2001) ... 

"the heart of the book is chapter six"

For more on this, take a break ..., and then continue here.