Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p011 ·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.

For example, it is important for every student to meditate on the concept of wisdom. This does not mean that they should now arrive at a clearly defined, intellectual definition of wisdom, but rather that they should hold views on it that are easily flexible and changeable. Wisdom and intelligence or education are very different things. In the higher worlds, where everything is more specific, there are beings who are very wise without thinking at all. They carry out plans with the utmost wisdom, but these plans have been conceived by other beings.

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