Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1910-11-05/p021
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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.
While we meditate, we consciously or unconsciously rise into the spiritual world, as if we were standing on a high mountain and the waves of our passions were crashing around us and up towards us, just as Noah's ark floated on the floods. It is these passions that reveal themselves in the first beginning as sounds, as voices.
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