Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1909-07-04/p027 ·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.

With this symbol, I must think of my higher self outside of myself; I must learn to view myself objectively, like an object—a table or something similar. Like the divine self that created me, I must then act upon my soul forces—the intellectual, emotional, and character forces— creative like the divine self, it should act and transform them; and they should penetrate my inner being, the temple of my body, which, like every temple, only much more complicated, has been constructed according to measure, number, and proportion, in two streams that I imagine passing through my eyebrows (the 3).

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