Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-04-11/p006 ·1913-04-11 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
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.

Now, through continued practice, one may have progressed to the point of having this or that supernatural experience, for example, seeing images. Beginners then repeatedly ask whether what they have seen is something imaginary or whether it was a reality in the spiritual realm. This question can be asked if one judges according to the nature of the physical plane — which, at the beginning of the esoteric path, can hardly be otherwise. This question only makes sense on the physical plane; in the spiritual world, what matters is something completely different.

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