Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-02-17/p017 ·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.

We must become aware of how spiritual secrets are hidden in the mantric words, down to the individual sounds. Out of a mystical mission, the initiates have given Central Europe a very specific language in which every single word and the sequence of individual sounds express something occult, as is evident in the word “I,” which contains the initials of Jesus Christ.

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