Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p033 ·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.

Through such knowledge, the occultist can interpret the bad, the erroneous, the evil that he sees in the world. He sees it around him, he should imagine it in his mind, but he knows that he must not go further than this point, where it is thought. He does not allow it to pass into action, which is always Luciferic-Ahrimanic. He looks calmly at all that is bad and evil, knowing that it will one day become the soil in which the seed of good will grow.

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