Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p055 ·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 we have trained ourselves to recognize the shadow-like nature of our thoughts and our external environment and to let them fall away more and more, we grow into the spiritual world. Then we will also recognize that everything we produce on earth in the form of thoughts of goodness, benevolence, and nobility is transformed into lasting, imperishable values of existence that will continue to exist. We see them before us in the distance, in the future, where they live for the good of humanity.

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