Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-11-19/p014 ·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.

Then, throughout our lives and incarnations, we have obscured and darkened this divine soul being within us. We have surrounded ourselves with a world of visions that originate from our own being, not from divine primordial beings. Through esotericism, we must penetrate to the point where, when we pass over, when we enter the spiritual world through the gate of death, we have freed ourselves from this darkening that has enveloped our entire being like a visionary cloud.

Read this passage in another edition
ENEnglish
Raw JSON: /v1/steiner/en/ga/266b/1912-11-19/p014.json
Cite: GA 266b/1912-11-19/p014 · edition English