Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-10-11/p007 ·1913-10-11 · 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.

A third thing is that during meditation you may suddenly feel very weak and break out in a sweat. This is the obstacle that the physical body places in the way of the etheric body, so that the etheric body cannot expand as it should during meditation. This occurs especially in people who want to develop esoterically and who eat too much. And when the etheric body does manage to detach itself from the physical body, it is confronted with a kind of dense wall that the person cannot see through, and further attempts to see spiritual light or spiritual beings are fruitless.

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