Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p008 ·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.

One penetrates to the element of earth by meditating on triangles, quadrangles, pentagons, and geometric figures in general. This should be done by writing these figures with the finger of one hand on the palm of the other hand, then letting go of all thoughts of the hand and the writing, and focusing only on the sensation of writing on the palm of the hand as if floating freely in space, and immersing oneself in this sensation. In this way, one gradually grasps the element of earth.

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