Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-04-11/p027 ·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.

How did that happen? Well, you see, every human being has an angel who guides them from one incarnation to the next – in religion, they are called guardian angels – who wanted to protect them, to warn them. How could he do that? He couldn't speak to him, especially if he wasn't yet esoteric, since thinking is something purely earthly. Only spiritual thinking is supernatural; physical thinking is purely earthly in nature. Feeling and willing, on the other hand, are connected to the spiritual worlds; the angel tries to make an impression on them and sends him an image.

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