Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p013 ·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.

Just as the human being stands between his etheric image and his physical image, so we can only gain a true picture of the human being. If the human being appears ugly in his physical body, then that middle image would appear beautiful, and vice versa. There was a certain trend in art that suggested this. There are images of Christ that do not show the figure of Christ as beautiful at all.

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