Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-05-25/p023 ·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.

These are the consequences of correctly performed exercises; and instead of making us fearful or disheartened, they should encourage us to go forward bravely. When we gradually learn to understand how we are always surrounded on all sides by forces that act upon us, we learn to live through the day with complete self-confidence and to establish a balance between all these influences. This will also help us to better understand the concluding words of our reflections, the first half of which represents the spirit of heaviness:

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