Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1911-10-14/p022
·1911-10-14
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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.
If we want to understand Maya and illusion with our intellect and think through these exercises of reversal, then the intellect, if it has developed healthy thinking, will only be able to go along with the fact of the reversal; otherwise, it would only be a continuous and repeated reflection of its own thoughts, which can then degenerate into something pathological.
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