Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-05-25/p030 ·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.

The realm of the primal forces is the realm of the spirit of heaviness. The primal forces or spirits of personality work in the physical body and are precisely what hold human beings to the earth. The activity of the spirit of heaviness as the spirit of form, that is, in the ego, is incorrect. When it works there, discord, disharmony, hysteria, and hypochondria arise. Heaviness is good in the body. The spirits of wisdom work correctly as spirits of light in the etheric body. They produce sound judgment; they work incorrectly as spirits of movement, where their effect as an incorrect effect manifests itself as confusion and enthusiasm, even in the physical body.

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