Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p054 ·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 a person looks into a mirror, they see their reflection: the mirror reflects the external impression of their physical form; without them, their person, there could be no reflection; it is therefore only a shadow image of their external form. Similarly, the thoughts that have their living seat in the etheric body are only mirror images, shadows, when we think them in our physical brain. Through meditation and concentration, we should strive to detach ourselves from these shadow thoughts by focusing our soul, our self, in the etheric body, so that we may penetrate to the true, actual source of our thoughts, which have their life in the etheric body.

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