Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p053 ·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.

Once the esotericist has become accustomed to this truth, that he is surrounded by pure nothingness in the physical-sensory world, a second truth will soon dawn on him, that of “It thinks me, not I think,” namely that all our thoughts are only shadows. We are accustomed to believing that thinking takes place in the physical body, but this is not the case. In truth, the etheric body is the originator of our thoughts. The physical body is only involved insofar as it is the mirror that reflects back the thoughts produced in the etheric body.

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