Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p021 ·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.

All these things can only be sensed and felt. The connecting link[^2] between the etheric and physical bodies is always the counterpart of the outer, visible human being. If a person appears ugly on the outside, the connecting link is beautiful. — In some art forms today (?), we can observe that this spiritual element, unconscious to the artist himself, is often expressed in the works, for example in the many crucifixion paintings with their ugly, painful features. —

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