Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-10-14/p054 ·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.

Loneliness has different effects on individuals depending on the degree of its development; it drives some into despair, while it leads others to inner joy. Often, the urge to be sociable in order to escape loneliness is excused by the desire to help others. Nevertheless, talking too much does not have a beneficial effect on us: it causes brutality.[^4] Love and egoism go hand in hand in this relationship when one loses oneself too much in sociability in order to “help others.”

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