Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p006 ·1914-03-27 · 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.

> I turn to things > I turn to them with my senses;— > Senses, you deceive me!— > What flees existence as nothing: > To you it is being and essence; > What must seem futile to you, > Reveal to my tantra.— > Spiritual light, warm me > Let me feel willing in you. > Good thoughts, true knowledge > How I experience you shining > Webs of error, evil thoughts > Show yourself to the luminous soul > That I may weave within myself. > Luminous I and luminous soul - > Floating above true becoming > The imagined, the recognized > Now becomes dense spirit. > And like light pearls of existence > Lives in the sea of the divine and true > What deceives the senses of existence.

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