Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p027 ·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.

We must imagine all things around us, the entire world of physical sensory perception, as a large, wide field (a surface). Above it spreads the supersensible world, below it the sub-sensible world. (Imagine the sensory world and the ordinary world of thoughts bound to the brain [maya] as a surface, a field, above it the supersensible world [hierarchies, etc.], below it the sub-sensible world, of which the highest sphere is the elemental world.) How do the two differ?

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