Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-01-02/p009 ·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.

In order to become conscious of our astral body, we must do exactly the opposite. We must restrain the desires surging in the astral body; we must develop serenity and equanimity toward them. We must create absolute calm, absolute stillness within ourselves. Only then will we feel the outer astral world touching our inner astral world. Just as we touch the etheric world by intervening in it with our will, so we feel the outer astral world by remaining calm within ourselves, by bringing all desires and wishes to rest.

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