Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-04-11/p021 ·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.

It is not the what that is the main thing in meditation, but the how. That is why one should persevere and repeatedly bring one's will into action. Faithful will is the main thing; and even if meditation does not work at all, the will is strengthened. It is precisely in such a space, from which the swirling thoughts have first been driven away, that the best opportunity arises for a manifestation from the spiritual world.

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