Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-02-12/p034 ·1908-02-12 · 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.

From this point, Figure 3, the I begins to develop, and it does so by transforming the bodies into soul. This line of development is represented by the gradually enlarging space between the lines emanating from Figure 3. The bodies that developed first are gradually consumed, and only the soul essence remains. - One will notice that the monad begins as a mathematical point. At the beginning of development, all possibilities are latent within it; but as evolution progresses, when the static (?) force is transformed into kinetic energy, into dynamic force — which is indicated by the space between the lines emanating from Figure 2 — when the point of occult writing has attained sufficient expansion, then the weak and helpless monad will have become the independent divine creator.

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