Esoteric Lesson
GA 266a/1908-05-22/p004
·1908-05-22
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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 first and most important thing in esoteric training is self-knowledge. The teacher says: Imagine that you are looking at your own reflection. If the mirror is poor, you will see a distorted image; if it is good, you will see a true image. If you want to see yourself as you are, you must make the mirror clear and unclouded.
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