VII. Group Ego and Individual Ego

GA 101/1907-12-27/p031 ·1907-12-27 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: unknown. How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.

This has a very deep meaning. Do not see anything arbitrary behind it. The best you can see behind it is that people were taught to recognize occult laws in their language. By letting people do such exercises to recognize the occult laws in language, they are consciously or unconsciously working on their occult training. The principle of symbolism is at the same time a principle of training.

Read this passage in another edition
DEoriginalENEnglish
Raw JSON: /v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-27/p031.json
Cite: GA 101/1907-12-27/p031 · edition English