Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-08-05/p005 ·1908-08-05 · 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.

When we look at human beings, we first see their physical body. The fact that the physical body is composed in this way is due to the effects of spiritual forces. The forces at work in the four elements—earth, water, air, and fire—are the archai or primal forces. They flow in and out of his physical body. Thus, the archangels work in his etheric body, and the angels work in his astral body. The sentient soul is structured within this; the powers [dynamis] work on it.

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