Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-06-14/p034 ·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 a large number of images from the external world are imprinted on the etheric body, there is no room for images from the spiritual world. That is why it is so important for the development of humanity to do meditation and concentration exercises, because these imprint spiritual images on the etheric body. It is less important that they be practiced for a long time than that they be done intensively, so that the entire external world disappears and the human being lives only in the spiritual realm.

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