Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-11-08/p003 ·1908-11-08 · 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.

Esoteric reflections need not differ greatly from exoteric lectures in terms of form and content. What is important is to remember that in an esoteric hour, the masters of wisdom and harmony of feeling are speaking to us. What matters is the “how” and that we allow the effects of the esoteric lesson to live in our souls. They are given to us so that we may think back on them with pleasure in our lives and allow them to form a central core in our souls. They are the complement to the exercises that the esotericist must do.

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