Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-03-14/p009 ·1908-03-14 · 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 lunar period, the entire atmosphere was watery. It was not water as we know it. The water was divided into very small particles that were spherical and moved around with tremendous speed. This state of the lunar substance is found again in the liquid “Mercury,” which also separates into very small globules and is more active (more mobile) than all other substances. Just as this substance is white, so is the blood during the lunar period, and it is formed into shapes by the world tone. These shapes are female. The entire moon represents the female principle.

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