Esoteric Lesson
GA 266a/1908-02-12/p025
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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.
The second element, water, does not exist on Earth today in its original state – it will be up to technology to recreate the original element – and it is what we call oxygen. In earlier times, humans drank oxygen as we drink water today. If we only had carbon and oxygen on Earth, we would age incredibly quickly. Oxygen has the ability to make everything live very quickly and to constantly renew itself.
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