Esoteric Lesson
GA 266c/1914-03-27/p029
·1914-03-27
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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.
If the student has trained himself to recognize the shadow-like nature of our thoughts within ourselves—to recognize how these thought shadows exist in the outer, physical world, in science, in society, how we ourselves, as physical human beings, are only shadows of our own inner being—if he has cultivated this as a basic mood of his soul, then he grows into a spiritual world.
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