Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-11-08/p013 ·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.

Since esotericists no longer have the protective forces available to them like other people, they must consciously apply them themselves. There are indeed aids available to them, but they are quite different from those often recommended by well-meaning people. For example, one is often told that one should overcome vanity, ambition, envy, etc. by fighting them, by confronting them. This would be absolutely wrong for the esotericist. The right aids lie in a completely different field and have no similarity or points of contact with the faults to be eliminated.

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