Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p017 ·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.

And now we view occult facts differently. We do not merely accept them with our minds, but we enliven them with our feelings. We permeate and saturate our innermost feelings with occult facts; we allow what we have experienced to flow into everything we do. To the extent that we do this, we have the Holy Spirit within us. When we feel physical well-being, we say: I thank the divine spirit within me. And when a thought that I have had in the past reappears in my mind, I say to myself: it is not I, but the divine spirit within me that is bringing this thought back to light in my mind. I no longer feel that the spiritual world is simply taking possession of me, but that I have connected myself with the divine spirit. And we will then feel the warmth of the divine spirit permeating us.

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