Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-01-26/p014 ·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.

On the old moon, the forces of blood, the forces of the sense of self, were still outside, surrounding human beings; it was only when blood entered human beings with its forces that the sense of self became wholly within them. The feeling of shame is the feeling, the desire to hide from other people, to sink away, to disappear. In doing so, one drives the blood out of oneself, as it were, that is, as far as one can, to the surface of the body—hence the blush of shame.

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