Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p049 ·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.

Of course, one thing is certain: anyone who wants to find the way into the spiritual worlds must rethink their thinking. Their entire life of perception and feeling must become different. This “becoming different” is so often misunderstood. People think that they can transfer the knowledge they have acquired on the physical plane to the spiritual worlds. The esotericist must learn to understand that there are other means of advancing on the physical plane than those by which one enters the spiritual worlds. They must increasingly empathize with the spiritual world, telling themselves that when meditating, it is not so much the content, the thoughts, that matter, but rather the attitude, the mood of the soul from which the meditation is carried out. It is these that transform the soul and develop the organs of the soul. When the esotericist is in such a right state of mind, he will also increasingly come to feel his etheric body.

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