Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p019 ·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.

When ascending into the supersensible world, we are actually seized by higher beings who use us as their instruments, just as we use our eyes, ears, etc. The danger in this experience is that, in the negative sense of the word, one becomes increasingly lost in oneself. It is therefore necessary to develop courage and fearlessness at the same time. Then we can calmly allow ourselves to be seized by spiritual beings in the spiritual world, so that we feel: now an angelic being is inspiring us, now an archangelic being, and so on. Imagination leads to the sub-sensory world, inspiration to the supersensible world.

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