Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p024 ·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.

If you meditate on all this, over time, in a quiet hour, you will reach a state where, while fully conscious, you lose awareness of the external world, and in this state you will recognize what is eternal, that birth and death are only transformations. The etheric body will illuminate itself from the other side through the ego, and we will recognize the eternal, living thoughts that we imprinted on it in their workings and see that they created the clairvoyant organs that we can now use.

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