Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p025 ·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.

A very simple example can show us that where there are objects in the physical-sensory realm, there is nothing in the spiritual realm: Take a bottle of seltzer water. You do not see the water. You do not see it in front of the glowing balls of sparkling carbon dioxide. They are only air: nothing. You do not see the water, the physical, in front of these pearls of carbon dioxide. In the same way, you cannot see the spiritual in the midst of the physical. The dazzling things of the world of perception conceal it from us.

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