Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-12-31/p007 ·1910-12-31 · 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.

This front mark is, of course, only present in the etheric-astral realm and can only be formed through meditation and concentration. That is why they are the most important thing for our esoteric development. And the only thing that is directly harmful to the esotericist is the consumption of alcohol. Alcohol must be avoided at all costs. It is of course good if we support the process through a vegetarian diet, because this lifting of the etheric body is by no means easy nowadays. Many of our modern professions are directly designed to drive the etheric body firmly into the physical body, so that it can often cause direct pain to the clairvoyant when he sees something like this. Even the food served in our large hotels today is designed to drive the etheric body firmly into the physical body.

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