Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-02-19/p008 ·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 Ahriman, what does Ahriman want? He wants to give power to human beings. Ahriman is the spirit that fell earlier. On the old sun, the archangels were human beings, but very different from us today. At that time, thoughts were immediately put into action. The people of that time were powerful beings. Thoughts became reality immediately. Wisdom was not yet as it was on the old moon, but power alone, without wisdom, leads to black magic, to darkness.

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