Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-11-05/p052 ·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.

When the color formations transform so that their opposite image emerges, when, for example, the red color “turns around” and becomes violet, this violet is truly something coming from the spiritual world. This is the dove that truly brings a message from the spiritual world. The student must experience something like a reversal of his own ego before he can have this experience. And now the student himself must give form and shape to what comes to him from the spiritual world.

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