Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-01-10/p008 ·1912-01-10 · 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.

The esotericist must also develop another, seemingly opposite quality. It is opposite to the first only in the same way that the right swing of a pendulum is opposite to the left: one results from the other, and yet they are directly opposite. Thus, it is necessary for the esotericist to bring two qualities into balance with each other, like the swings of a pendulum: first, the fruitfulness of solitude, that is, the strengthening of egoity; and second, complete devotion to the point of self-sacrifice, of forgetting oneself, to that which comes to us as duty from outside.

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