Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1909-07-04/p006 ·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.

3. About the I. In earlier times, the human I still lived somewhat outside the physical body. In Atlantean times, this was ...[^1] the case, and even today there are still a few individuals whose ego has not been completely drawn into the physical body. At that time, human beings were clairvoyant, but they could not distinguish themselves from external things; they merged with them. In the post-Atlantean era, development proceeded toward transferring this ego into the physical body. The point is between the eyebrows.

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