Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p034 ·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.

This is actually how it happened in the evolution of the Earth. For how did the mineral kingdom of the Earth come into being? When the Earth did not yet exist, on the old moon, the hierarchies, from the beings who were then human beings up to the spirits of form, gradually worked their way up to what surrounds us in the earthly state as wisdom. They thought error upon error. That was appropriate there. But out of all these errors, the material, the mineral, arose on Earth as a waste product.

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