Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-06-12/p010 ·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.

Just as the earth is surrounded by an envelope of air that humans breathe, so too is there a spiritual substance in this air that wants to flow into humans. It is up to us whether we let this spiritual substance escape again as death air, or whether we connect it with our theosophical knowledge and weave its fruit into our astral body. But this is not only important for us, but for the entire cosmos. If we breathe in this spiritual substance without making it fruitful within us, we take something from the cosmos without giving anything back, thus hindering evolution. It depends on us whether the Jupiter state can follow on Earth, namely by increasing these spiritual forces in the Earth's orbit.

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