Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-02-22/p017 ·1912-02-22 · 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.

One of the most characteristic things of our time is what is happening in China at the moment and which, strange as it may sound, is the result of earlier attempts by Christian missionaries to bring Christianity to China. China still possesses a genuine Atlantic spiritual science, which contains many great things, but which belongs to a closed period and from which Chinese culture cannot rise. The consequence of the missionaries going to China was not that Christianity was introduced to China, but that the Europeans became Chinese. It is the concepts and ideas of the Chinese that have flowed into the Europeans, been brought to Europe by them, and are now leading Europe into Chinese culture, so that it will become a center of the greatest confusion in concepts and perceptions.

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