Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1912-02-22/p022
·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.
You can damage your physical eyes if you try too hard to train them to see the supersensible. All the methods that are now mainly coming from England, which enable you to see people's auras in a certain artificial way, are harmful to the physical eye because they drive out the etheric body in the eye area. You can even go blind from it.
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