Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p057 ·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.

Just as here on the physical plane the mineral soil provides nourishment for the plants and one always feeds on the other, so all evil thoughts and all bad knowledge become the sediment for the thoughts of good, noble, and true that are germinating in the elemental world. This is why the occultist can interpret evil and error so well; he should imagine it in his mind, but he knows that he must not go beyond this point, where it is still a thought; he does not allow it to pass into action, into reality, which is always Luciferic and Ahrimanic; he knows that it provides the soil in which the seed of good will one day grow.

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