Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-11-05/p010 ·1910-11-05 · 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» (Participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

But then, later, the student has another occult experience. When we have realized that there is nothing, absolutely nothing spiritual in those experiences of sounds and colors, when we have recognized with inner strength that the spiritual world is completely empty for us, then we realize that those experiences do have a meaning, a meaning for ourselves. The colors become warning signs and advisors; they tell us what we do not yet have, what we still have to achieve. From the sounds we recognize that they reflect physical desires. And when the images that we have allowed to work on us calmly reveal their meaning to us, then the soul is enriched by such experiences. It is like the second dove that was released and returned with the olive branch, the symbol of peace.

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