Esoteric Lesson

GA 266c/1914-04-25/p010 ·1914-04-25 · 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.

Still other elemental beings work on the meaning of words, that is, not on the spoken word as one hears it from others, but these beings stand behind the individual consonants and vowels that form a word; they work on the composition of letters and syllables. Those who are outside their bodies cannot understand the words that are spoken; they lack the physical organ for this. However, they can follow the elemental beings as they work, gathering the individual letters to form a word.

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