Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-01-17/p026 ·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.

> Water is water and remains water. > From the sky of the wise rains water > The stone of the wise weeps tears of water > Yet the world does not respect such water, > Their fire burns in water > And lives in water > Make water out of fire > And boil the fire in water > Then fiery water will become > Like sharply salted sea water > Be living water for your children! > Consume body and soul with water — > Become stinking, green, rotten, blue like sky water > Digest, calcine, dissolve, and putrefy the water; > Seek the philosophers' fourfold water, > And when it is best made, > The art will become water.

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