Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-02-26/p039 ·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.

Even now, the human physical body begins its existence in the mother's womb with a point, the germ cell. Thus, human beings began their cosmic existence with a spiritual point. The diversity of his limbs, with all the forces working within them, sprang from this point. All the characteristic properties of the mineral, plant, and animal worlds are present in human beings. These interact within the human being today. Although individual properties are more developed in animals than in humans, this is only the result of a one-sided development in animals, which has taken place at the expense of diversity. Human beings are versatile and diverse. The student reads this development toward versatility from the point when he looks at the point.

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