Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1910-12-31/p003
·1910-12-31
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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.
The esotericist should clearly realize what he is actually doing with his exercises, the spiritual exercises given to us. We have often spoken about the esotericist's striving to loosen the etheric body, indeed all four bodies from one another. This can now be done in two ways, exoterically and esoterically.
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