Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p031 ·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.

Everything has arisen from the thoughts of the sublime spirit. [How can I free myself from all the shadowy thinking around me?] How can I learn to think in such a way that, as a human being, by drawing close to this being in devotion, I will be accepted by it! He realizes that everything we produce on earth in thoughts of goodness, benevolence, nobility, and love is transformed into lasting, imperishable values of existence that do not pass away like fleeting shadows—that will continue to exist. We see them before us—perhaps still far away, in the future. There they live, there they are effective for the good of humanity! And we see that everything evil, bad, and deceitful also lives on! It does not pass away! We see all the base, selfish thoughts of human beings in the distance, but we know that they are waste products of human development; they are fruitless in themselves. But they do have their purpose: these waste products serve as nourishment for what is to develop as good. Everything bad becomes what is to develop as nourishment for the seeds of good.

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