Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-01-17/p024 ·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 second arises when you form a vivid mental image of air, then suck out the power of the air through a spiritual process, connect it with your feelings, and thus ignite the concept of ‘heat’, ‘fire’, and then you get ‘fire air’. So one element is sucked out, the other is produced by yourself. The alchemists called these two elements, air and fire, ‘sulfur,’ luminous fire air. In the watery element, you have in truth that matter of which it is said, ‘and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters.’

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