Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-01-17/p019 ·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 hierarchies have periodically recorded the same thought over and over again (permanent thoughts that reinforce what lives in fluctuating appearance), and they continue to elaborate on the same thought. In this way, they have a creative effect. Thus, our various bodies and the spiritual-soul nature dwelling in these bodies are created by this divine thinking—actually, they are themselves only thoughts of the gods.

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