Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1911-03-15/p017
·1911-03-15
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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.
These exercises should be continued uninterrupted for a long period of time. They are not easy; one must first acquire a certain amount of practice, firstly in feeling the sensations in space without using one's hands, and secondly in holding the figure. But then this exercise leads to an understanding of the elementary world; one learns to grasp it.
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