Esoteric Lesson
GA 266a/1908-02-26/p024
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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 Moon period, cosmic astrality permeates the globe, and the third element, water or moisture, is added to the other two. Certain small water globules appeared in the atmosphere, moving back and forth with great speed and permeating everything, so that something very similar to mercury appeared during this process. Therefore, this type of activity is designated in occult writings with the symbol of Mercury: ☿. This type of activity is the third stage in divine unfolding; it is the stage of creative thought, just as the Saturn state represents the stage of will and the solar period the stage of feeling. This creative thought reveals itself as “sound,” and through this sound the bodies of humans and animals are formed in the water of the planet.
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