Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-01-17/p006 ·1911-01-17 · 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 we think only the ordinary thoughts of the physical plane, these are not really thoughts, but rather the reflection, the illusion of a thought. For everything that belongs to the physical world was thought long ago, and we do nothing more than repeat those thoughts—and then in an incorrect manner. For example, when someone hears a bell ringing, the sound is not something real, but rather, millions of years ago, what became the bell was thought, and what became our brain was also thought, and the collision of these two produces the sound we hear.

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