Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-02-17/p024 ·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.

At first, one cannot remember having thought or done anything at all. But after dwelling on this thought for a while, the thought comes, first fleetingly, then taking on ever more definite forms: You have thanked the Deity for allowing you to take up residence again in the temple of the body that it has built for you and to occupy it once more. We are born from the divine: Ex Deo nascimur.

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