Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-01-02/p013 ·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.
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If we do as Christ Jesus did, we do not see the ugly, but dive so deeply into everything that we come to the good. In this way, we detach ourselves from our ego and can observe it. I am love and will. Through the developed will, we learn to recognize the substance of all things that originate in the divine. Through love, we learn to experience the essence of things. In this way, through will and love, we advance to a recognition that is free from the personal ego. As spiritual egos, we learn to immerse ourselves in the essence and substance of all things, which originate from the spiritual Father, just as our own ego does. Our ego looks at us from everything that has been created (“Swan”). The student reaches the stage of the “Swan” when he can experience this.

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