Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p007 ·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 astral body comes into a new incarnation harmoniously organized and is only made disharmonious by life. Upon entering the new life, the astral body senses this, and this is the occult explanation for why the vast majority of children cry after birth. Their astral body senses the entry into life as pain, which disturbs its harmony. This harmony can only be restored by the ego, through the creation of thought images that are projected from the ego through the astral body onto the etheric body and are capable of sustaining life. The impressions we convey to our etheric body in ordinary life are mostly worthless in terms of their life force. We must now create thought images that are clear, correctly structured, and therefore capable of sustaining life. We can schematically represent what has been said in the following way:

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