Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-03-21/p006 ·1913-03-21 · 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.

Alongside this, a second experience occurs, that of diving down, sinking into the depths. This is accompanied by a feeling of constriction, of being drawn together. The spiritual beings that one senses during this descent appear in blue-violet flashes of color. They trigger a feeling of reverential awe in us and cause people to engage in a kind of self-reflection. They show people how they really are, all their faults and errors, all their moral weaknesses in all their magnitude and reprehensibility.

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