Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-01-02/p007 ·1914-01-02 · 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.

You can learn to feel the etheric body by correctly performing the second supplementary exercise, the exercise of the will. Usually, people are driven to act by external impressions. They see a flower in the meadow, and because they like it, they reach out to pick it. Now, as esotericists, we must arrive at this point without any external stimulus, solely from the inner impulse that we consciously give ourselves to do this or that. Then one comes to realize that it is the etheric body that causes the hand to move. In this way, one feels one's etheric body awakening.

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