Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-04-11/p024 ·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.

Only through pain and suffering can one develop further. Often the illnesses that arise are the karmic consequences of stages of development that one has gone through in previous lives, and which the soul cannot reject in any other way than through illness and suffering. Often, when such an illness is over, one realizes that one has progressed in one's development. Everything that comes should be understood as karma.

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