Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1904-07-09/p018 ·1904-07-09 · 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.
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: «Gedächtnisaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmern sowie Notizen von Vorträgen» (Participants' records written from memory, and notes of lectures). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

The best image for this development is the following: Once you have found your self, you imagine yourself sailing out onto the great ocean. Nothing can be seen on the surface of the water. As far as the eye can see, there is only water and sky. The ends of the sea are limited by the horizon. On this surface, we imagine ourselves as a wave in the moving sea, as a single wave among many waves. When we feel truly at one, we must calm the waves of the sea. Deep silence must descend. Nothing can be heard, nothing can be seen. The water in which we are immersed is completely calm. No movement can be felt. In this complete silence, in this complete seclusion, the voice of the master will be able to sound; it will no longer be drowned out by the noise of everyday life. This is followed by the practical exercise. We all practiced this image by placing ourselves in the thoughts of the I, then in the waves of the sea, then in the deep silence of the sea.

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