Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-03-15/p039 ·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.

If we meditate on these symbols in the manner indicated, we will already notice how we settle into the elements, how we recognize the beings that live in them. At the same time, however, we will feel that we are becoming more and more selfish. These exercises can only be beneficial if we simultaneously develop a counterbalancing sense of general compassion, universal sympathy, which makes us perceive every cry or sound of lamentation, every sound of pain in our surroundings as if it sprang from our own tormented breast.

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