Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-03-21/p015 ·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.

We should never forget one thing: the feeling of deepest gratitude toward the higher beings and the spiritual worlds. Just as the Essenes looked forward each morning with gratitude to the approach of the sun and prayed that it might appear - so should we also return every morning with reverent gratitude to the spiritual beings in the temple of our physical body, which has been so artfully built up through the Saturn, Sun, Moon, and Earth ages, and in which we alone can acquire earthly consciousness: Ex Deo Nascimur.

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