Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p041 ·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 order to deal with this feeling of being sucked in, we must learn to regard everything we experience in joy and suffering as a gift from the gods, brought to us by the Father Spirit and working within us. In this way we develop the inner serenity we need as inner strength in relation to the higher hierarchies. One could now say: if someone were to take in all the thoughts that are given in theosophy today, these would be the thoughts of the higher hierarchies, of the gods; but this thinking would create an icy coldness within us. That is why we must combine these thoughts of the gods with the warmth that love awakens in us. Even if this is only possible to a small extent, it is like the first feelings of life in a plant seed. It is only through the Christ event that we have been able to combine wisdom with love.

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