Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-01-17/p007 ·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.

They cause our astral body to vibrate in a certain way, but this vibration was already placed there by higher beings. So anyone who never thinks in a non-sensory way will never bring new formations into the astral body. What happens in the astral body has an effect on the etheric body, but the etheric body is predisposed to receive new thoughts and forms. The old forms have a destructive effect on it and, from there, also on the physical strands of our nervous system. All of this must then be restored during sleep. The astral body is then temporarily connected to the higher hierarchies and thereby receives strength; the etheric body is separated from the astral body and is thereby regenerated. Without sleep, human beings could not live for long.

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