Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-09-03/p005 ·1913-09-03 · 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.

What has been mainly talked about during these days is the guardian of the threshold, Lucifer and Ahriman. We must learn to recognize the realms of these last two in order to protect ourselves from encroachment. Above all, we must be careful not to take concepts that we have formed and acquired here in the physical realm, which rightly exist for the physical realm, and carry them over into the spiritual realm when we cross the threshold.

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