Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-11-19/p012 ·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.

We must feel yet another feeling, the feeling of powerlessness, of powerlessness toward the divine-spiritual worlds. We ourselves cannot maintain our physical body overnight, during sleep, nor can we prevent it from decaying. Divine-spiritual beings do this for us. We come from the spiritual worlds from which we originated and re-enter the physical body upon awakening; the spiritual forces sustain and form us: E.D.N. (Father principle).

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