Esoteric Lesson
GA 266b/1912-04-24/p010
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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.
Let us be clear about this: what happens at the birth of a new human being? The mother carries one part within herself, but the other part is supersensible, invisible, and connected with the father. Meditate on this idea of a motherless human being, try to grasp it purely spiritually, and place a second image beside it: that of the fatherless Christ.
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