Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-01-02/p011 ·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.

But the good gods have made humans weaker, and that is good, because otherwise there would be no suffering and no articulate language. The esotericist must learn to endure all pain, indeed everything that is stimulated in him by the external world, calmly, serenely, equanimously. Then he will not attack the outside world (through his astral body), but the attacks will turn away from him. But since he has developed complete serenity, they only touch his physical and etheric bodies. The astral body remains untouched. It becomes free, so to speak, and can be observed. So through the practice of serenity, I come to know my astral body.

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