Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-06-12/p009 ·1911-06-12 · 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.

On Jupiter, there will also be no more exoteric knowledge. If man had remained in paradise, he would also have eaten from the tree of life. Through the influence of Lucifer, the tree of life was taken away from him, and with it the possibility of sinking much lower than he did after eating from the tree of knowledge. Now, however, the tree of life is transformed into a sign that initially signifies death, but which contains within itself a higher life that man can attain if he makes the cross with the red roses his own.

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