Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-04-24/p013 ·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.

Knowledge of this was contained in the Egyptian mysteries. Above the image of Isis were the words: “I am who I am, who I was, who I will be,” the same “Ejeh asher ejeh” that was once spoken to Moses from the burning bush. The Egyptian soul could only glimpse the mystery of Golgotha, through which the pure mother forces were to become effective in living human beings. Only when Christ Jesus, the fatherless human being, connected himself completely with the earth by passing through the gate of death, only from that time on could the pure mother forces — the forces from the cosmos — work in human beings on earth.

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