Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1911-03-15/p028
·1911-03-15
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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 face the sub-sensible world as if we were grasping it, and the supersensible world as if we were being grasped. If we imagine, for example, that we are touching a snail or that it is crawling over our hand, we can see the difference. If we imagine these two different sensations often enough, we will find the difference between the supersensible and the sub-sensible world.
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