Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p005 ·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 experience of the impressions that the outside world constantly conveys to our senses has a destructive effect on our sense organs. When we look at a rose, the red color, the shape, etc., have a destructive effect on our retina. The sensation of the rose travels along our nerve strands and has a destructive effect on them. What the retina receives, the astral body throws as an impression into the etheric body, and thus the latter receives numerous impressions from outside every day.

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