Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1911-02-19/p016
·1911-02-19
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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.
On Venus, it will then be black magic, and the state will be like spiritual drowning. In order for pure love to shine on Venus, people must already be willing to embrace esotericism.
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