Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-02-26/p023 ·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 solar period, the cosmic ether permeated the globe. Saturn lit up, shone like the sun, and became the sun. Another element is added, air, and when fire and air are combined, combustion occurs, and the hidden fire becomes visible as light. This combustion process is symbolically represented in occult writings as sulfur (sulfur) 🜍 and underlies all thoughts. Therefore, it corresponds to “feeling” in the divine process of development. One can say: The Saturn period was the will; the Sun period was feeling.

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