Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-05-25/p012 ·1910-05-25 · 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» (Participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

We need not be afraid when we feel the spirit of heaviness in such a way that we wake up in the morning feeling broken and our limbs so heavy that we can hardly move them. This is a temporary stage and a sign that we have passed through the incorrect stage of hypochondria. And those who at certain times have the feeling that they can hardly keep their feet on the ground, that they must be floating, need not be alarmed, for they have passed through the stage of enthusiasm, and the phenomenon is only a regular one in development. The human soul is kept in balance by the spirit of gravity and the spirit of light, and the esotericist should always strive not to disturb this balance.

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