Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1911-01-17/p025
·1911-01-17
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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.
The speaker of this passage is not asserted. This passage speaks ABOUT Rudolf Steiner in the third person, so it is most likely a report, minutes, or an editorial summary rather than his own words. Verbatim, but confirm the speaker before attributing anything here to him.
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.
This may be related to the fact that a “Rosicrucian water saying” circulated among members of the esoteric school. The wording is taken from the Rosicrucian text “Secret Figures of the Rosicrucians from the 16th and 17th Centuries,” Altona 1785, reprinted in Berlin in 1919 (the saying is headed “Aqua Philosophorum h.e. Mercurius Primaterialis Catholicus”). Facsimile of Rudolf Steiner's handwritten copy (NZ Archive No. 3019) see p. 140:
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