Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-02-26/p022 ·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.

During the Saturn period, there was only one element, fire. However, it did not express itself as fire, but as heat, just as we have fire in our blood as heat. On the other hand, there was no light during the Saturn period. There could be no light because the cosmic ether did not permeate (fill) Saturn, and therefore the state that would exist if our ether were outside the Earth prevailed at that time. At that time, the sun's rays could not illuminate our globe.

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