Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-02-22/p019 ·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.

And when an outdated form of Buddhism and everything Oriental comes over to Europe—and the Orient, being so far away, exerts the greatest attraction on people—then error and confusion will reach a climax that we can hardly imagine. The new seed that is now emerging in Europe, which must be regarded as a seed and not as a fully grown fruit, forms the center to which we must hold fast. All other currents must be decisively rejected as not belonging to this sprouting seed, with which our soul must connect its further development.

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