Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-01-02/p026 ·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.

Finally, the esotericist must strive to develop a good memory as a habit (by doing everything with strong awareness, always being fully conscious of everything). We all know the story of the man who had little sense of spatial relationships and never knew where he had put anything. To remedy this, he set up various tables in his room and put everything on them. There are scholars who can only work when they have twelve tables around them, on which their reference books are open so that they can easily find quotations, and who have to go from one table to another.

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