Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p040 ·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.

In the first stanza, we rose above the merely earthly as if on wings of the soul; in this second stanza, we find the way to our own self. We sink deep into the loneliness of the soul. The self draws ever closer together! It recognizes more and more what good and noble thoughts it carries in its soul, as well as evil and foolish ones. And it recognizes that both are necessary in the development of earthly human beings. The meditator realizes the mission of evil: that it is the future nourishment for good. That this good will nourish itself like a sprouting seed from the dregs of evil, that it will consume all evil and vice and establish an eternal existence for itself.

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