Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p026 ·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 same applies to reading theosophical books. A theosophist should not believe that he really knows a book after reading it three times. That is as good as not having read it at all. And instead of reading five books five times, he should rather read one book twenty-five times. We will then notice the results in ourselves; they will flow unconsciously into our meditations and form milestones on our path to the spiritual heights.

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