Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1913-10-11/p010 ·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.

The more seriously we develop as esotericists, the more we should cultivate a devotion within ourselves, a devotion that should be directed from our soul toward higher beings, for example, the angels. They need our esoteric striving and the study of theosophy as nourishment for themselves. And to the extent that theosophy penetrates into us and we make it a part of our own being, to that extent can the archangels use it for the further development of the individual peoples and thus for their own development.

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