Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p023 ·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.

In esoteric development, we must try to remain steadfast. We must patiently endure all pain, suffering, anxiety, etc. It is not a good sign for the esotericist if he complains and tries all kinds of cures. We must realize that a change is taking place in the body, which is causing these very conditions. All kinds of nervous disorders, such as those we observe in neurasthenics, agoraphobia, the urge to swing down from heights, can also overcome us; then we must remind ourselves that all this is maya, and above all that all such states strengthen us for difficulties that will arise later.

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