Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p021 ·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.

The Saturn state could not be described if one could not, on the one hand, rise to beings such as the spirits of will or spirits of personality, and on the other hand, penetrate into the element of fire. Similarly, for the Sun state, one must recognize the spirits of wisdom and the archangels, as well as the element of air. In the description (in the “Secret Science”), both are given together: how the thrones let Saturn's warmth flow out, and so on. However, it is necessary to perceive this as a duality when observing it.

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