Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p009 ·1911-10-14 · 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.

Those who, through the study of theosophy, have grasped the great truths about the world and humanity in such a way that they warm and inspire them, learn to feel themselves in the midst of spiritual beings in such a way that their independent existence cannot be endangered. Then, in everything that happens to us, we learn to say from within ourselves: This comes from God. Then we learn to say in suffering: God sends us this suffering as a loving reminder of past mistakes; and in happiness we will say: This is a blessing that God sends us, and it makes us thankful, not arrogant. Then we learn to recognize the effect of divine powers in everything that happens, and we gradually feel ourselves in the right relationship that connects us to the cosmos.

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