Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p004 ·1908-06-14 · 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 waiting period that esotericists must endure until they reach their goal of entering higher worlds often seems very long to them. Some believe that their spiritual organs are developing particularly slowly. However, even the slightest impatience always has a delaying effect, especially on the development of these organs, and when the student complains of failure, he is very often wrong. For eight-tenths of the students have already developed their spiritual organs, often without even realizing it or understanding how to use them. It is like what happens to a sleeping person with their hearing organs. The ear is open as always, even in sleep, and yet the person hears nothing of the outside world because the ego has left the physical body and etheric body with the astral body.

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