Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p052 ·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.

A very simple example can show us that where objects are perceptible to the senses in the physical world, they are pure nothingness in the spiritual world. Take a bottle of seltzer water: Just as you cannot see the water, even though it is denser, in front of the glowing balls of sparkling carbon dioxide, which are only air, a “nothing,” so you cannot see the spiritual in front of the dazzling things of the world of sensory perception.

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