Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-04-24/p015 ·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.

What was Isis in the Egyptian mysteries, this sacred center of power, is presented to us in Christianity as Mary Sophia in the Gospel of John. The union of the ascending and descending forces, which took place in the mystery of Golgotha, has made it possible for human beings to now perceive [also the mother forces] between birth and death. Christ Jesus could not grow older than thirty-three years. From the occultist's point of view, every human being is actually already at the stage at the age of thirty-three where they carry their body with them as a corpse. Of course, the effect of the forces and their transformation do not occur all at once, but take place gradually. Both, including the mother forces, are present in human beings from the beginning; it is just that the father forces predominate, namely the building forces of the earth.

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