Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-03-14/p050 ·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.

Thirdly: on the moon, the spirits of form also shed their astral body and retain the I as their lowest link. In its place, they add another link, the tenth link. Outwardly, they form nothing but I's. Through space, these spirits of form work from outside into the moon with the I's, having given their astral bodies to human beings. Everything that human beings have has flowed down from the cosmic environment; it is a sacrifice to this cosmic environment.

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