Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p034 ·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.

Another good exercise is to imagine a plant that looks green, but is in fact maya or illusion; one should imagine it with purple-red leaves, a blue stem, etc., and also think of its position as reversed; then, with the right feeling, one will feel oneself as the plant, growing into it and thus growing with it into the spiritual heights. The same is also stated in “How to Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds.”

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