Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p012 ·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.

From this we see once again how serious esoteric training is. For when we clearly realize the possibilities of evil within ourselves, we are simultaneously tempted to act upon them. And we should know that just as we must recognize the possibilities of evil within ourselves and allow them to become ideas for the stronger growth of good, we must also know that we must never, even in the slightest, allow evil to become action.

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