Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1909-12-05/p008 ·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 student succeeds in closing himself off completely from external influences and noises in his meditation, when he switches off his physical body, so to speak, he lives during meditation only in his etheric body, astral body, and ego. When a person has left his physical body and etheric body during sleep and dwells with his ego and astral body in higher worlds, high spiritual beings enter his abandoned bodies. The physical body is entered by the ego of the spirits of personality who created him on Saturn, and the etheric body is entered by the ego of the archangels.

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