Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-11-05/p020 ·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.

What was said yesterday about the inexpressible word that is heard in meditation and that points toward the East should not be imagined as something that represents a sound that has anything in common with human language. What one hears as vowels, as articulated sounds, is precisely what one has put into it oneself. Nothing that is seen or heard in the spiritual world, no sound, no color, has anything in common with the things of this physical world. When we look at the color red, for example, the color is something that belongs to us; it represents what we ourselves are not yet. Red in the spiritual world means love. So when we see red, it means that we have not yet developed love within ourselves.

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