Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p062 ·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.

To things ... the soul should really turn to things as if with an inner gesture. The second line: I turn ... - reinforces the first; I should really feel this inwardly. In the third line, I address the senses. The soul should free itself from the physical, from the nothingness of the sensory world. It should rise from the physical and material to what lies behind things. It should spread far out into space and feel: The good in me is eternal; it is the seed for the future - Ex Deo Nascimur

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