Esoteric Lesson
GA 266c/1914-04-25/p006
·1914-04-25
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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.
Let us consider what happens during sleep. The etheric body and physical body remain in bed, while the astral body and I am outside in the spiritual world. Why is it that during sleep, human beings do not consciously experience the world in which they find themselves, as they experience the physical world in their daytime consciousness?
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