Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-03-14/p049 ·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.

Secondly: on the sun, the spirits of form radiate their life body completely inward; it is no longer radiated back, and human faculties permeate it. Previously, the spirits of form mirrored their image; now they permeate these images with their own life forces, giving off their etheric body. Now they have the astral body as their lowest link and add another link above it. This astral body of the spirits of form is the carrier of the astral light, which manifests itself all around in lightning, fire, and passions. These cosmic affects are the Titans in the myths, who create in passions. Through these passions acting from outside, from the air circle on the sun, combustion takes place—the sulfur process.

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