Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p013 ·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.

A second concept to meditate on is love. What the average person calls “love” is often nothing more than blatant selfishness. Even the love of a mother caring for her sick child is often only an expression of selfishness, trembling with the pain of losing the child. True love is always productive. That is why, as harsh as it may sound, almost only artists have any idea of love today, as they devote themselves entirely to their work. Thus, the gods created our earth out of love by devoting themselves entirely to their creation and, so to speak, sweating creation out of themselves.

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