Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-01-02/p027 ·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.

We smile about this, but in reality it is the same for all of us in our subconscious. The etheric body is the repository of memory, but without the physical body it would be unable to store information properly. The nerves are impressed, and the information must be written into the physical body, which is, so to speak, the recording device for what I want to retain. And when a person wants to remember something, they penetrate the physical body with their etheric body to the place where they have written it down, and then the memory image comes to life, and they read it from the physical body.

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