Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1909-12-05/p005 ·1909-12-05 · 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 the esoteric schools of the present time, which rightly exist and have the Christ force at their center, it is now possible to teach through the word. In the past, communication with the divine-spiritual worlds could only be achieved through mantras, through sound; but now, through the meaningful word within themselves, human beings can initiate union with the Christ force. Winged messengers are to be the words that carry human beings up into the spiritual worlds.

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