Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1911-03-15/p006
·1911-03-15
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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.
The entire physical world with all our sensations related to it is a maya or illusion. We can imagine it as a field or a plain; above it is the supersensible world, below it the sub-sensible world. The supersensible world is such that it can be connected with the feeling of being touched, the sub-sensible world, on the other hand, with the feeling of touching.
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