Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-01-26/p021 ·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.

Now there are beings or formations in the astral realm which, earlier than normal, condensed out of the spiritual realm—the astral realm—into physical existence, but which are still completely guided by astral wisdom. Such beings or formations are comets. The direction of their course in space often appears dangerous, for example to Earth, but they are always deflected in directions that seem to contradict the physical laws, and the danger passes. They follow wise astral laws.

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