Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p025 ·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 we accelerate this process in any way out of impatience, the etheric body will be illuminated by the ego, and we will see in it only what life has given us in external impressions, distorted images that are often hideous, or seductive, beautiful illusions*. Therefore, the greatest patience and caution are advised so that we may create well-formed, correct spiritual organs; for with them we create our future, our new Earth. The gods meditated on our present planet, and what we create should also become as wise as it is.

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