Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-02-17/p022 ·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 and every sequence of words expresses something occult, for example in the sentence “It thinks me.” The e is drawn out twice. This is the expression for the ruling, weaving, creative divine that flows from the divine world order into human beings. s — spoken in a drawn-out manner — is the astral that winds, flows, and weaves through everything. Me: that means my ego. So: the divine thinks my ego. When meditating on this, one should empty the soul completely and have only the deepest feeling of piety within it.

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