Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-03-14/p052 ·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.

The human being receives the I. At first it approaches from the cosmos of the earth. It already has an effect on the emerging physical body, initially through the astral body, which surrounds the emerging human body like a shell. This happens around the time of the Lemurians. At that time, the human body was still very soft, a very soft mass, permeated by magnetic currents. Under the influence of the approaching ego, something like an invagination arose within it. Through this, one can see down to the etheric body. A dim perception begins, which opens more and more toward the outside. Previously, humans had a kind of dim perception inward, through which they could perceive other humans, animals, and their group souls.

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