Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-11-08/p004 ·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.

We know that through these exercises our astral body undergoes colossal changes, that we ourselves transform the astral body, which until then was unstructured and disordered, but nevertheless a harmonious whole, creating islands and divisions within it, through which we begin to form organs. These astral organs are the channels through which the Masters can allow communications from the higher worlds to flow into evolution and promote it. Through this independent formation of astral organs, we intervene in the divine world order, challenging it, so to speak, by using forces that it has hitherto used for other purposes, namely to protect against the effects of negative qualities on the astral body.

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