Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-02-19/p005 ·1911-02-19 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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.

We know that the previous embodiment of our Earth was the old Moon, the cosmos of wisdom, that it was completely permeated and imbued with wisdom. But there was one force that is now incorporated into the Earth that was missing from it: love. And so Lucifer is also completely permeated with wisdom, but he does not know love at all. He has devoted himself entirely to wisdom, he has become intoxicated with it, and therefore he wants to fill all beings, the children of the earth, with wisdom.

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