Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p040 ·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.

If we now try to place ourselves with our consciousness in the right way in the sensory world, without being purely outwardly at the mercy of a maya and clinging to it, we must realize the following. Before us stand the realms of minerals, plants, and animals. Behind us stand the realms of the hierarchies adjacent to human beings, the angels, archangels, and spirits of personality. One can often have the feeling, especially when doing the exercises described above, that one is being absorbed by the hierarchies standing behind us; one will also often have the feeling that an angel is entering into us.

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