Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-04-24/p009 ·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.

The father forces are therefore still at work in human beings today; they are an earth-bound, planetary force. They are at work in everything on earth, including human beings. For it is not only the forces of the mother that act on the child after conception, but also the forces of the father; they pass from the earth to the child through the father and form the building forces that are most effective until the age of thirty-three.

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