Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1908-11-08/p015 ·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.

The remedy for envy is to meditate on beauty, either in nature in general or as it is expressed in individual works of art or in particularly perfect human beings. We should immerse ourselves completely in enthusiasm for beauty in any form. It would be completely wrong to think of the person we envy in this way or to try to fight our envy directly. If we occupy our thoughts with something beautiful at every opportunity, we will feel envy gradually fade away.

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