Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-03-14/p024 ·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.

Blood is the tool of the ego. The spirits of Saturn work in the warmth of our blood, just as Christ worked in the blood of Jesus. Jesus was thirty years old when Christ entered him. During those thirty years, Jesus had worked on his physical, etheric, and astral bodies. Then Christ took possession of the blood and purified it in three years. That is why the blood had to flow. When we have purified our four bodies in the same way, we will have the fourfold philosophical fire that belongs to the Vulcan period.

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