Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p050 ·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.

When I stretch out my hand and touch the blackboard here, in the physical-sensory sense one would say: there is an object that my hand has encountered resistance from — in the spiritual sense there is nothing there; there are holes, gaps in the spiritual world where objects that can be perceived by the senses exist in the physical world. But before I encounter this resistance, I pass through the spiritual world, which is completely filled with realities, with spiritual beings. In truth, we do not see objects in space, but the outlines of the spiritual world.

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