Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-03-14/p012 ·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.

These different types of blood or fire are still within us and form the tools for spirits that work within us and upon us until we become sufficiently individualized to take over all the functions performed by these spirits. The air we breathe is the tool, the carrier or body of a [certain] type of spirit; the rays of light that enter our eyes carry within them a spirit of light that acts on our eyes; in the warmth of our blood, the ego, the spirits of Saturn find their point of attack. Some of them are very evil and dangerous.

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