Esoteric Lesson

GA 266a/1909-12-05/p010 ·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.

Our own ego goes into the world of the spirits of personality, the astral body into that of the archangels. They live unconsciously in these worlds, and we should consciously go through this process in our meditation, consciously enter these realms with our ego and astral body and draw the etheric body along with us. Like a magnetic fluid, it must draw us into the spiritual worlds during our meditation; then we are in the right state of mind. But it is not so much the words themselves that matter, but rather that the right meaning flows into them from the spiritual worlds; that they are filled with meaning through the power of Christ, that is what matters.

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