Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p004 ·1911-03-15 · 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.

As explained last time [January 17, 1911], our meditations should be guided by the motto: “Constant dripping wears away the stone.” The study of theosophical works is an effective preparation for the exercises. It is better to have read one work twenty-five times than five books five times each; and anyone who has read a book two or three times should not imagine that they have read it at all. If we have experienced this or that in our meditation on a particular day of the year, then, if we have really studied in the meantime, we will be able to experience much more on the same day a year later. It is good to keep the same exercise for long periods of time; that is much better than constantly changing.

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