Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-04-24/p008 ·1912-04-24 · 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.

Everything that we encounter in human beings is inconceivable without a mother. The only motherless human being is Adam; only the father forces were active in him. Of course, we must not imagine him physically or sensually before our soul, for the physical conditions of today did not exist on our earth planet at that time when Yahweh created the first human being on earth in his etheric body, and he created him from the substances of the earth planet, as is also indicated in the Bible. These substances, these earthly forces, are still present in every human being today, so that we can say: Yahweh is the father of us all—and the planet is the mother of us all.

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