Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1910-12-31/p009 ·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.

We came into being from the spiritual realm — Ex Deo nascimur. And when we take the leap across the abyss, we express this [through] In Christo morimur — in the firm confidence that we will be reborn in the Holy Spirit: Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus. However, because we are to hold the name of the Most Holy, which has always been connected with our earthly development, so sacred that we do not utter it unworthily, there is an esoteric version of the Rosicrucian motto in which the name is omitted:

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