Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-11-08/p014 ·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.

In order to counteract the harmful effects of ambition and vanity, for example, the esotericist must not fight them within himself, because in doing so he would become too preoccupied with himself, and that is precisely what promotes these faults. The remedy is now to concern oneself not with oneself, but with human beings in general, that is, to think intensively about human beings and their sevenfold nature, their various bodies. If one does this on every occasion when one feels these qualities particularly strongly, one will notice that they gradually disappear.

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