Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-02-26/p014 ·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.

If one observes with the spiritual gaze that sweeps over the planets how, after a pralaya, the old Saturn transforms itself into the Sun, one notices how the warm atmosphere of Saturn condenses into air. Man receives an etheric body on the Sun. He is a luminous being. The spiritual beings work through the astral atmosphere of the sun upon the etheric body, igniting it and causing it to glow. This process is called the sulfuric process. Something very similar occurs today in thinking. Through the fact that our fiery blood is brought to the nerve mass, a combustion process takes place and a glow arises.

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