Esoteric Lesson
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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.
There are other ways in which the doppelganger can be karmically conditioned. For example, a sudden fright can cause the etheric body to become detached, and the person finds themselves facing their physical body. Or there may be a very trivial reason: someone has upset their stomach; the etheric body emerges at this point and the person sees themselves.
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