Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-01-02/p010 ·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.

Before the astral body is ready, it numbs itself by crying. We know that pain arises when the physical body and the etheric body are not in proper contact. The astral body perceives this as pain. When a small child feels pain, it cries. It tries to drown out the pain by crying. An adult might cry out, “Ouch!” If a person were able to let their pain flow completely into the vibrations of sound, the vibrations in the formation of the etheric body would cause such changes that they would not feel the pain, but would sink down into the subconscious.

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