Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-11-05/p041 ·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.

Human beings clothe their experiences in the physical world in forms, colors, and sounds. However, the spiritual world does not express itself in colors, shapes, and sounds in the physical sense. Man must therefore undergo a reversal of his self in order to become seeing in the higher world, and for this he needs inner strength. Yes, we must learn to recognize that it is we ourselves who initially bring about the colors and shapes (imaginative images). We must boldly and courageously acknowledge this. The supposed voices are usually only the expression of uncomfortable moods of the body; this is even more the case with meat eaters.

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