Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-01-26/p005 ·1908-01-26 · 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.

In everyday consciousness, all human beings experience states that are reminiscent of the lunar state, and others in which the Jupiter state protrudes. When we blush with shame, we repeat a piece of the lunar state. Why is this? On the moon, we did not yet have blood. But we know that blood is the expression of our I. On the ancient moon, all the forces that are at work in our blood today were outside of us. We had no sense of self yet. When we blush with shame, we would like to say: Oh, if only I were not here, I would sink into the earth. In doing so, we push the blood outward, as if casting off our ego.

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