Esoteric Lesson
GA 266a/1908-02-12/p007
·1908-02-12
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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.
> Whoever understands this tablet correctly,
> Sees how one thing comes from another.
> First, everything is contained in the number four,
> The elements everywhere,
> From which the three beginnings arise,
> Which bring forth two sexes,
> Male and female, from the sun and moon,
> From these grows the imperial son:
> Who is like nothing else in the world,
> And surpasses all kingdoms.
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