Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p026 ·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.

Once the esotericist has come to terms with this fundamental truth, that he is surrounded by nothingness in the physical-sensory sense, a second truth will soon dawn on him, the truth: It thinks me, not: I think. For so long he believed that his thoughts had value in the world, but now he is gradually learning that there is a world power in the spiritual realm which creates by thinking. And that all human thinking is only a shadowy reflection of this world thinking, which is produced by a sublime spiritual being, to whom thinking is as natural as sensory perception is to humans. He learns that these human thoughts are only shadows reflected in the physical body and have only the value of shadows, which are indeed a necessity for the physical world, but which he must transform through his meditation so that the shadow images become realities.

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