Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-02-17/p005 ·1913-02-17 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: mixed sources. This volume draws on more than one kind of record (transcripts, notes, documents). Check the volume's own front matter before weighing a single passage. Evidence: «Gedächtnisaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmern und Meditationstexte nach Niederschriften Rudolf Steiners» (Participants' records written from memory, and meditation texts from Rudolf Steiner's own manuscripts). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

A mystical transmission has given Central Europe a very specific language in which every single word, as well as the sequence of words, expresses something occult, for example in the sentence: It thinks me. The long “e” expresses the ruling, weaving, creative divine in the world order and in human beings, spoken in a drawn-out manner: that which winds its way through everything, flowing, undulating (from “wave”), astral, as it were.

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