Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-02-26/p008 ·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 truly esoteric life can only develop by taking in the thoughts of those divine, creative spirits, the thoughts that existed before the creation of things. The whole exoteric life is hostile to this. The majority of people are completely absorbed in the thoughts of exoteric life and seek to suppress all esoteric life. These people, who are very numerous, are in truth, even if unconsciously, holding back the progress of humanity. They are enemies of all further development — they cause humanity to become rigid. Only esoteric truths have a beneficial effect on the development of humanity.

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