Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-02-19/p006 ·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.

And therein lies the great temptation for human beings time and again. Lucifer, whose powers live within us, says something like this: You will see into all circumstances, you will know everything, everything will be clear to you if you take me completely into yourself. He wants to give people wisdom without love; it leads to selfish knowledge. Lucifer still believes that he will win people over to become soldiers in his armies, and he is working hard to achieve this.

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