Esoteric Lesson
GA 266c/1914-01-02/p018
·1914-01-02
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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.
Consider that a significant impulse, an important idea, takes nineteen years to be properly grasped and understood inwardly. If the esotericist believes that after some practice he is now ready to enter the spiritual worlds, it is just as if a child who has just learned to speak were to say: “It takes too long for me to wait years until I am a man. I want to be a man right now.”
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