Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p022 ·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 must prepare oneself to see and hear things in the spiritual world that one has never seen or heard here below. Those who only expect to find what they already know over there will never be able to enter the spiritual world. This is also what is expressed in the second sentence of our Rosicrucian motto: In - - - morimur. Only when we die in Christ can we be resurrected through the Holy Spirit. This is expressed more clearly in what is, in a sense, a commentary on our two-part motto given to us by the Masters:

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