Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p059 ·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.

On the old moon, the hierarchies from man upwards to the spirits of form thought error. That was appropriate there, and from it the material, mineral world on earth came into being. And from this earthly substance, Yahweh Elohim was able to form man and give him his physical shell. But Lucifer, who is on a similar level to the Elohim on the moon, still wants to do the same thing. However, he can only use man to do this; he can only let error be thought within man.

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