Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1909-12-05/p006 ·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.

When the disciple experiences a sunrise, when he sees the fiery ball rising and sending out its first rays, he feels that the sun is the bearer of physical warmth and triggers warmth within him. But he also knows that there is something spiritual behind the sun, and when he concentrates on this, the outer appearance of the sun gradually fades away and the figure appears before his spiritual eye which is recognized in all esoteric schools as the Christ Spirit. And this apparition radiates, just as its outer garment radiates light throughout the world, with love. The “bearers of light” are the Luciferic beings, the bearer of love is the Christ being. And the student must feel this love overflowing when he experiences the spectacle of a sunrise. This is expressed in the meditation:

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