Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-01-26/p017 ·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 our development, we rise again from the earth to the height of the former state of lunar consciousness, the state of Jupiter consciousness, now connected with clear earth consciousness: On the path of development, therefore, we are already seeking to initiate this Jupiter state through breathing exercises. When we hold our breath with our lungs full, the blood is driven outwards, as it were; this is the lunar state, which together with the earth state results in the Jupiter state.

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