Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-11-05/p043 ·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.

We must learn to interpret the symbolic language that echoes to us from the spiritual spheres. Then the dove of our spirit will no longer return empty, but with the olive branch. We must seek to understand spiritual experiences in the language of images. The first symbols that appear to us should be an invitation to acquire this quality. For example, if the color red, the color of love, appears to us, I say to myself modestly: You do not have it! Violet is the color of devoted piety; it tells us to be patient, to be able to wait. But when one day these colors transform into their complementary colors, we can say to ourselves that we have taken a step forward and purified ourselves of egoism.

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