Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-11-19/p007 ·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.

Now there is a second sentence that we can apply in the same way. First of all, we must look back on ourselves. Most people, when faced with the blows of fate that strike them in life, wonder how it is that this has happened to them. The esotericist should always keep the thought of karma in mind. We are indeed to blame for everything that happens to us. If we allow this thought to live within us, we will gradually come to understand karma, to become aware of the connections that exist between the divine-spiritual world and ourselves, and how our destiny, our karma, is worked out from these underlying forces.

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