Esoteric Hour for the “Wachsmuth-Lerchenfeld Group” III

GA 265a/1924-01-03/p017 ·1924-01-03 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.

Awakening in the I: We sleep in the I. We use the word “I” only because the gods once spoke it for us - our angeloi - and imitatingly now humans speak it. But we must awaken in the I! Imagination for this: altar, above it the sun. We approach the altar and experience ourselves completely as shadows, completely as insubstantial. So far we have said: I am. Now we consciously say: I am not. - Then a deity rises out of the sun above the altar and animates the shadow. We are like a bowl that receives the light of the deity that rises from the sun. - By grace we receive this deity, it gives itself to us. - Fichte experienced this, but only in a shadowy way. Therefore, what he says about it is completely abstract.

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