Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1912-02-22/p008
·1912-02-22
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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.
One might ask why we had to descend. But that would be like someone who, when asked to go to a certain place to learn something, replied that it was not necessary and that he would rather stay where he was. But then he would not have the experience. And we would never have attained the consolidation of our ego in this way if we had not entered the physical body in this way.
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