Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-04-11/p023 ·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.

Others complain of severe pain at the root of the nose between the eyes and ask what they can do. Yes, one must simply endure it; they should just continue meditating. This will make the pain worse; it is as if one's head were splitting, but first of all, the head does not split, and secondly, this enables one to break through the wall that separates us from the supersensible world.

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