Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-03-27/p064 ·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.

In this verse, we should immerse ourselves in our own inner selves, in the solitude of the soul. The ego withdraws into itself; it recognizes the good and noble thoughts and the evil and foolish thoughts it carries within its soul; but it feels that both evil and good are necessary; evil is the future nourishment for good, for good will feed like a sprouting seed that consumes evil and vice and remains eternal itself. Both are taken up by Christ and carried into the future. If the good that we have created is to bear fruit, we must carry it into Christ—In --- morimur!

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