Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-02-26/p025 ·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.

In the Saturn period, the predisposition to physicality was expressed as heat; in the Sun period, it condensed into air; but now, during the Moon period, the inner heat of the planet on the one hand and the cold of the outer cosmic space on the other hand produce moisture; and we have the stage of water, during which the predisposition to the body condenses into water. However, this activity is of a negative nature, and so during the lunar epoch the first of the two polarities, the feminine, appears.

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