Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-11-28/p003 ·1912-11-28 · 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 is my task today to speak about the progress we are making through our exercises, based on occult experiences. Some will perform their meditations correctly and be able to achieve the calmness that is essential for thoughts and feelings or even visions to enter our soul as a result of meditation. Some will do this for years and perhaps feel as if they are exactly where they started. And yet this is not the case. It must be said that it is very important for the esotericist to pay attention to his soul life, for this is so intimate that the attention must be very sharp if one wants to perceive everything.

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