Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-11-19/p003 ·1912-11-19 · 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.

Those who enter esoteric training naturally strive to reach the higher worlds, but most imagine the events that then occur to be different from how they often manifest. It is the visionary life that seems most desirable to many and that must indeed come about; but it is not primarily important to experience this; what matters is a certain state of mind. As soon as esoteric training has begun, the soul changes under the influence of the exercises given to the esotericist according to his individuality. And now it is to be regarded as the main thing that attention is paid to such a state of soul in the finest and most subtle way.

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