Esoteric Lesson
GA 266a/1908-02-26/p033
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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 sleep, the astral body lifts itself out of the physical body. The human being then lives in a sea of the astral, swimming, so to speak, in the sea of wisdom of divine thoughts. But he knows nothing of this, since his astral body is largely clouded and darkened by the thinking of the erring ego, which binds itself to the outer world through the senses during the day. He reproduces this at night.
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