Esoteric Lesson
GA 266a/1908-02-26/p005
·1908-02-26
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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.
Everything that people think and feel today can be divided into two separate areas. The vast majority of humanity thinks and feels as a result of external perceptions. Thoughts and feelings are ignited by things. When you read scientific or popular books, for example about the origin of the earth, the development of the planetary system, chemistry, and the like, do not believe that what is contained therein came into being in any other way than through external stimulation through perception. In principle, it is exactly the same when you see a tram on the street and are inspired to think about it, or when an astronomer observes the path of a star through his telescope with the aid of a circle and makes calculations based on these perceptions.
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