Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-01-17/p009 ·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.

The mental images we form of theosophical teachings – for thinking about them is also meditation – will not be entirely free of sensuality at first. For example, when we say that Saturn is a sphere of heat, or that the harmony of the spheres resounds in Devachan, we will initially imagine this in sensual images: like the warmth in our blood, like a beautiful symphony, and so on. But as the thought is repeated over and over, the sensory aspect that still clings to it falls away of its own accord, and the supersensible remains.

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