Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-01-26/p013 ·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.

There are three duller states of consciousness than our bright daytime waking consciousness and three higher ones, which are normally attained on Jupiter, Venus, and Vulcan. The initiates attain these states already on Earth (the three duller ones are those of Saturn, the Sun, and the old Moon). In individual experiences, the old lunar consciousness appears atavistically in humans—in feelings of shame—and, pointing forward, the Jupiter consciousness appears in terror and fear.

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