Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p015 ·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.

What love and wisdom can unite within themselves is the self, the self that always creates in itself, that must always be “confessed” anew, as Fichte says. Fichte's philosophy can only be properly understood from the standpoint that the ego must constantly recreate itself and recognize itself. This is also what Meister Eckhart means when he says, “If I were a king and did not know it, I would not be a king.” In other words, what good is it to be a king if one is not aware of being one?

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