Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1909-07-04/p005 ·1909-07-04 · 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.

2. About the exercises, how they must be carried out: with seriousness, perseverance, and punctuality. What is their purpose? Their purpose is to awaken the powers that lie dormant within human beings. Where are these powers located? In the astral body, etheric body, physical body. On the value and meaning of symbols! Symbols are images of processes and relationships in the spiritual world. When we apply them to ourselves, we transfer processes and relationships from the spiritual world to our own being. Symbols must therefore be used in such a way that, in the course of the exercises, we realize them within ourselves, that we take them into our being.

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