Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-03-14/p038 ·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.

If you do not know which of two things to choose, it is better not to decide at all, but to wait! - This occult saying naturally has two aspects, like everything else! It follows from this that we should prepare ourselves for decisions, that we should educate ourselves to maturity. The ego makes the decisions. The more mature it becomes, the more correct decisions it will make, and the more intense the combustion process will be. The ego permeates the lower bodies as if with fire and gradually burns them up. The fire then separates into dead and living fire. - The impressions that surround a person are important.

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