Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-07-04 · 1908-07-04 · English · 6 passages · 168 words
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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.
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## GA 266I — 4 July 1908, Kassel

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### Esoteric Lesson

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Since Munich in 1907, coordination instead of subordination. Harmony in esoteric teachings. The difference between exoteric and esoteric observation: in exoteric observation, the speaker bears the responsibility; in esoteric observation, the responsibility lies with the being behind the speaker, whose mouth he uses. We must regard the esoteric lessons as messages from these beings.

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The six exercises. The sixth = connection of the five. Harmony in the intellectual, emotional, and moral spheres. The student must be equally grounded in all three.

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If a person wants to voluntarily leave their physical body without harm, in a state that is neither death nor sleep, it is necessary that someone helps and protects them. And this is Christ.

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Through the Christ impulse, the etheric body is loosened and lifted out of the physical body. The etheric body is permeated by the Holy Spirit through the Christ impulse. And the Holy Spirit—our higher self—allows forces to flow into us from outside.

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