Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-11-19/p006 ·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.

It thinks me — the great world thought thinks me. Esoterically, this is expressed in The Guardian of the Threshold: “World thoughts live in your thinking.” Esoterically, one says: It thinks me. Therefore, if you let this mantric saying pass through your soul often—it can be done immediately after meditation or during the course of the day, in every leisure hour, wherever you go and stand—it will have an infinitely strengthening, energizing effect on the soul. But you should not let these words pass through your soul as a simple sentence; you must fill your soul with them and feel a sense of deepest piety. Esotericists should make it their duty never to say this as a mere “sentence.”

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