Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p020 ·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 can see how these two directions, upward and downward, are united in the Rosicrucian path. As a clairvoyant, it is necessary to learn to distinguish strictly between the elemental world and supersensible beings; between what appears here in the physical world as unity. Anyone who were to see both together, in one image, the being and that which is its elemental expression, would make the grossest mistakes and confuse everything. In the beginning, it is not easy to separate the two realms, because both astral and devachanic vision exist, but one gradually learns, when looking at a being and rising upward, to descend immediately in order to find the elemental aspect of this being below the physical world, just as when looking at an object, one can immediately look down to see its reflection in the water.

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