Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-02-26/p006 ·1908-02-26 · 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.

All such thoughts that are stimulated from outside have an inhibiting effect on the further development of the astral body. When a person sleeps, their physical and etheric bodies lie in bed, and the astral body floats above them. It is active throughout the night. All the thoughts that the person has thought during the day come to it. And since these are mostly thoughts that have arisen through external stimuli, they disturb him. Only that part of the astral body that has retained its harmony by being born out of higher worlds works to restore the worn-out etheric and physical bodies. But only those thoughts that are not stimulated from outside work as forces in the astral body, promoting and purifying it.

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