Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1905-12-28/p008 ·1905-12-28 · 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: «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 mind must be purified. Love must lose all that is unchaste and become divine. In order to become objective, the memory should not hold on to anything that could give rise to prejudice. The mind should be clear, and the will, where it is selfish, should be extinguished, but where it serves as an instrument of the Masters, it should be inflamed.

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