Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1910-11-05/p039
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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.
With time, we will learn that the soul changes through meditation, and what we experience through these changes can reveal itself to us in certain sounds. But we must not consider this to be true inspiration either; in reality, it is nothing more than the occult cawing of our desires and cravings—reflections of our inner being. This occult raven cawing is overcome when I send the raven away.
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